Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. 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 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Chernivtsi Oblast If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Chernivtsi Oblast
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Chernivtsi Oblast "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Chernivtsi Oblast
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Chernivtsi Oblast When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Chernivtsi Oblast
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Chernivtsi Oblast "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Chernivtsi Oblast
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Chernivtsi Oblast "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Chernivtsi Oblast
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chernivtsi Oblast We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Chernivtsi Oblast
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Chernivtsi Oblast The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Chernivtsi Oblast
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Chernivtsi Oblast Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Chernivtsi Oblast
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Chernivtsi Oblast Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Chernivtsi Oblast
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Chernivtsi Oblast If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Chernivtsi Oblast
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Chernivtsi Oblast All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Chernivtsi Oblast
