"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Novomoskovsk Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Novomoskovsk
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Novomoskovsk "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Novomoskovsk
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Novomoskovsk I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Novomoskovsk
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Novomoskovsk If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Novomoskovsk
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Novomoskovsk Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Novomoskovsk
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Novomoskovsk We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Novomoskovsk
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Novomoskovsk "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Novomoskovsk
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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
scumbags dev "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Novomoskovsk Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Novomoskovsk
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Novomoskovsk Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Novomoskovsk
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Novomoskovsk "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Novomoskovsk
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Novomoskovsk "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Novomoskovsk
