"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Sniatyn At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sniatyn
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Sniatyn If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Sniatyn
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Sniatyn He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Sniatyn
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Sniatyn Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sniatyn
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Sniatyn No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Sniatyn
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Sniatyn Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sniatyn
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sniatyn "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Sniatyn
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Sniatyn That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Sniatyn
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Sniatyn Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Sniatyn
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Sniatyn "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Sniatyn
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Sniatyn "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sniatyn
