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"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Dnipropetrovsk Oblast "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Dnipropetrovsk Oblast "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Dnipropetrovsk Oblast "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Dnipropetrovsk Oblast The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Dnipropetrovsk Oblast I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dnipropetrovsk Oblast "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Dnipropetrovsk Oblast It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Dnipropetrovsk Oblast I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans 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 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
