Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Storozhynets True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Storozhynets
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Storozhynets Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Storozhynets
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Storozhynets "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Storozhynets
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Storozhynets There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Storozhynets
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Storozhynets Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Storozhynets
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Storozhynets One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Storozhynets
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Storozhynets A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Storozhynets
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Storozhynets blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Storozhynets
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Storozhynets Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Storozhynets
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Storozhynets The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Storozhynets
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Storozhynets Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Storozhynets
