"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "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 Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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 Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl 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 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "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) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi 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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi
