The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Novomyrhorod Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Novomyrhorod
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Novomyrhorod I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Novomyrhorod
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Novomyrhorod "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Novomyrhorod
"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) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Novomyrhorod The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Novomyrhorod
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Novomyrhorod That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Novomyrhorod
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Novomyrhorod With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Novomyrhorod
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Novomyrhorod I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Novomyrhorod
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Novomyrhorod "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Novomyrhorod
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Novomyrhorod My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Novomyrhorod
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Novomyrhorod I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Novomyrhorod
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Novomyrhorod Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Novomyrhorod
