"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "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) Holovanivsk The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Holovanivsk
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Holovanivsk Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Holovanivsk
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Holovanivsk I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Holovanivsk
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Holovanivsk If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Holovanivsk
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Holovanivsk In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Holovanivsk
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Holovanivsk I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Holovanivsk
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Holovanivsk What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Holovanivsk
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Holovanivsk Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Holovanivsk
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Holovanivsk "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Holovanivsk
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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Holovanivsk The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Holovanivsk
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Holovanivsk Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Holovanivsk
