Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Ivano-Frankivsk You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Ivano-Frankivsk
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Ivano-Frankivsk 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Ivano-Frankivsk
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Ivano-Frankivsk "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Ivano-Frankivsk
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Ivano-Frankivsk It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 Ivano-Frankivsk
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Man and wife make one fool. Ivano-Frankivsk There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Ivano-Frankivsk
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Ivano-Frankivsk I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Ivano-Frankivsk
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Ivano-Frankivsk Man and wife make one fool. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Ivano-Frankivsk
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Ivano-Frankivsk "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 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Ivano-Frankivsk
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Ivano-Frankivsk Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Ivano-Frankivsk
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Ivano-Frankivsk To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Ivano-Frankivsk
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "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) Ivano-Frankivsk "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Ivano-Frankivsk
