Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Kyiv Oblast 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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Kyiv Oblast
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Kyiv Oblast I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Kyiv Oblast
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Kyiv Oblast As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Kyiv Oblast
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Kyiv Oblast "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Kyiv Oblast
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Kyiv Oblast When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Kyiv Oblast
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Kyiv Oblast The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Kyiv Oblast
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Kyiv Oblast A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Kyiv Oblast
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Kyiv Oblast To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Kyiv Oblast
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Kyiv Oblast Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Kyiv Oblast
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kyiv Oblast Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Kyiv Oblast
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Kyiv Oblast "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Kyiv Oblast
