"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Letychiv If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Letychiv
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Letychiv Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Letychiv
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Letychiv "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Letychiv
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Letychiv "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Letychiv
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Letychiv What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Letychiv
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Letychiv The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Letychiv
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Letychiv A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Letychiv
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Letychiv "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Letychiv
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Letychiv I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Letychiv
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Letychiv The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Letychiv
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Letychiv America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Letychiv
