When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Vilshanka Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Vilshanka
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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Vilshanka A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Vilshanka
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Vilshanka Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Vilshanka
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 Vilshanka Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Vilshanka
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Vilshanka 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 have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Vilshanka
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Vilshanka Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Vilshanka
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Vilshanka In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Vilshanka
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Vilshanka Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Vilshanka
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Vilshanka 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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Vilshanka
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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 "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) Vilshanka Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Vilshanka
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Vilshanka "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') You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Vilshanka
