Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Novhorod Siversky There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Novhorod Siversky
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Novhorod Siversky I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Novhorod Siversky
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Novhorod Siversky "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Novhorod Siversky
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Novhorod Siversky I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Novhorod Siversky
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Novhorod Siversky "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Novhorod Siversky
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Novhorod Siversky Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Novhorod Siversky
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Novhorod Siversky Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Novhorod Siversky
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Novhorod Siversky In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Novhorod Siversky
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Novhorod Siversky Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Novhorod Siversky
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Novhorod Siversky "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Novhorod Siversky
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Novhorod Siversky Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Novhorod Siversky
