"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "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, Ustynivka We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Ustynivka
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Ustynivka Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Ustynivka
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Ustynivka Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Ustynivka
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Ustynivka "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Ustynivka
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Ustynivka Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Ustynivka
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Ustynivka Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Ustynivka
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Ustynivka Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ustynivka
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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" I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Ustynivka Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Ustynivka
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Ustynivka As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Ustynivka
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 Ustynivka Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Ustynivka
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Ustynivka Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Ustynivka
