Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Beryslav All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Beryslav
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Beryslav There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Beryslav
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Beryslav Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beryslav
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Beryslav Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Beryslav
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Beryslav Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Beryslav
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Beryslav Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Beryslav
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Beryslav A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Beryslav
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Beryslav Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Beryslav
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Beryslav "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Beryslav
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Beryslav "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Beryslav
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "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) 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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Beryslav Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Beryslav
