Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Novoselytsia "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Novoselytsia
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Novoselytsia I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Novoselytsia
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Novoselytsia You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Novoselytsia
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Novoselytsia Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Novoselytsia
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Novoselytsia When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Novoselytsia
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Novoselytsia In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Novoselytsia
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Novoselytsia "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Novoselytsia
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Novoselytsia "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Novoselytsia
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Novoselytsia The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Novoselytsia
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Novoselytsia "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Novoselytsia
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Novoselytsia Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Novoselytsia
