My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Bobrynets Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Bobrynets
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Bobrynets In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Bobrynets
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Bobrynets "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Bobrynets
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Bobrynets "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bobrynets
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Bobrynets Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Bobrynets
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Bobrynets "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Bobrynets
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Bobrynets Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Bobrynets
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Bobrynets There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Bobrynets
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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Bobrynets "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Bobrynets
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Bobrynets Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Bobrynets
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Bobrynets When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Bobrynets
