Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Kharkiv Oblast The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Kharkiv Oblast
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Kharkiv Oblast Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Kharkiv Oblast
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 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Kharkiv Oblast We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Kharkiv Oblast
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 Kharkiv Oblast A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Kharkiv Oblast
"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) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Kharkiv Oblast True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Kharkiv Oblast
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Kharkiv Oblast Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Kharkiv Oblast
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Kharkiv Oblast Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Kharkiv Oblast
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Kharkiv Oblast blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Kharkiv Oblast
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Kharkiv Oblast Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Kharkiv Oblast
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Kharkiv Oblast A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Kharkiv Oblast
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Kharkiv Oblast To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Kharkiv Oblast
