Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Obukhiv Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Obukhiv
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Obukhiv "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) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Obukhiv
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Obukhiv Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Obukhiv
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Obukhiv "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Obukhiv
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Obukhiv To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Obukhiv
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Obukhiv I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Obukhiv
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Obukhiv A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Obukhiv
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Obukhiv I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Obukhiv
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Obukhiv A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Obukhiv
"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) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Obukhiv "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Obukhiv
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Obukhiv This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Obukhiv
