It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Kolomyia Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kolomyia
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "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..." ( For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Kolomyia No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Kolomyia
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Kolomyia "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Kolomyia
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Kolomyia Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Kolomyia
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Kolomyia Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Kolomyia
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Kolomyia "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "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 a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kolomyia
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Kolomyia Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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 coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Kolomyia
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Kolomyia Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Kolomyia
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Kolomyia Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Kolomyia
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Kolomyia "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "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 Kolomyia
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Kolomyia No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Kolomyia
