There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "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) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "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) Oleksandrivka Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Oleksandrivka
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Oleksandrivka "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) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Oleksandrivka
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Oleksandrivka Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Oleksandrivka
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Oleksandrivka For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Oleksandrivka
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Oleksandrivka Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Oleksandrivka
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 "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) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Oleksandrivka "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Oleksandrivka
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Oleksandrivka In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Oleksandrivka
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Oleksandrivka "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Oleksandrivka
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 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Oleksandrivka We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Oleksandrivka
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Oleksandrivka Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Oleksandrivka
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Oleksandrivka The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Oleksandrivka
