To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Boryspil "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Boryspil
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Boryspil My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Boryspil
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Boryspil Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Boryspil
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau May you never leave your marriage alive. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Boryspil The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Boryspil
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Boryspil 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 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boryspil
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Boryspil What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Boryspil
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Boryspil "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Boryspil
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Boryspil Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Boryspil
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Boryspil Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Boryspil
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Boryspil They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Boryspil
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Boryspil Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Boryspil
