blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Synelnykove Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Synelnykove
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Synelnykove Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Synelnykove
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Synelnykove A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Synelnykove
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Synelnykove "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Synelnykove
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Synelnykove "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Synelnykove
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Synelnykove Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Synelnykove
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "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) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Synelnykove "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Synelnykove
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Synelnykove "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Synelnykove
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Synelnykove Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 Synelnykove
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Synelnykove You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Synelnykove
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Synelnykove Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Synelnykove
