If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Kryvyy Rih Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Kryvyy Rih
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Kryvyy Rih Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Kryvyy Rih The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Kryvyy Rih 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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Kryvyy Rih
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Kryvyy Rih "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Kryvyy Rih
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Kryvyy Rih "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Kryvyy Rih
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kryvyy Rih I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Kryvyy Rih
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kryvyy Rih "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Kryvyy Rih
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Kryvyy Rih "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Kryvyy Rih
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Kryvyy Rih He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Kryvyy Rih
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Kryvyy Rih Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Kryvyy Rih
