Utoropy - The eldest village in the Hutsul lands (Kosiv district).
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Kosiv There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Kosiv
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Kosiv Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Kosiv
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Kosiv "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Kosiv
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Kosiv "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Kosiv
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Kosiv 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 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Kosiv
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings My other wife is beautiful. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Kosiv Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Kosiv
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Kosiv Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Kosiv
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Kosiv Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Kosiv
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Kosiv "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Kosiv
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Kosiv Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Kosiv
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Kosiv Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Kosiv
