It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Novoarkhanhelsk Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Novoarkhanhelsk
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Novoarkhanhelsk Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Novoarkhanhelsk
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Novoarkhanhelsk The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Novoarkhanhelsk
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Novoarkhanhelsk When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Novoarkhanhelsk
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "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) Novoarkhanhelsk There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Novoarkhanhelsk My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Novoarkhanhelsk
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "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) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Novoarkhanhelsk When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Novoarkhanhelsk
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Novoarkhanhelsk "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Novoarkhanhelsk
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Novoarkhanhelsk "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Novoarkhanhelsk
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Novoarkhanhelsk The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Novoarkhanhelsk
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Novoarkhanhelsk When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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