To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Dniprodzerzhynsk The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Dniprodzerzhynsk
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Dniprodzerzhynsk It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Dniprodzerzhynsk
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Dniprodzerzhynsk Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Dniprodzerzhynsk
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Dniprodzerzhynsk "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Dniprodzerzhynsk
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Dniprodzerzhynsk I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Dniprodzerzhynsk
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Dniprodzerzhynsk I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Dniprodzerzhynsk
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Dniprodzerzhynsk "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Dniprodzerzhynsk
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dniprodzerzhynsk Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Dniprodzerzhynsk
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Dniprodzerzhynsk In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Dniprodzerzhynsk
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Dniprodzerzhynsk In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Dniprodzerzhynsk
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dniprodzerzhynsk I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 Dniprodzerzhynsk
