Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Tsyurupynsk Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Tsyurupynsk
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Tsyurupynsk "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th 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 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Tsyurupynsk
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "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) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tsyurupynsk Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Tsyurupynsk
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Tsyurupynsk Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Tsyurupynsk
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Tsyurupynsk We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Tsyurupynsk
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 Tsyurupynsk The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Tsyurupynsk
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 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. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Tsyurupynsk Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Tsyurupynsk
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Tsyurupynsk May you never leave your marriage alive. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Tsyurupynsk
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "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) Tsyurupynsk "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Tsyurupynsk
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Tsyurupynsk Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Tsyurupynsk
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Tsyurupynsk Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Tsyurupynsk
