Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Burshtyn I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Burshtyn
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Burshtyn "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Burshtyn
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Burshtyn I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burshtyn
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Burshtyn Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Burshtyn
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Burshtyn Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Burshtyn
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Burshtyn Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burshtyn "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Burshtyn
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Burshtyn Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Burshtyn
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Burshtyn Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Burshtyn
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Burshtyn I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Burshtyn
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "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) "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) Burshtyn If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Burshtyn
