"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Stavyshche Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Stavyshche
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "'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) Stavyshche He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Stavyshche
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Stavyshche The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Stavyshche
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Stavyshche Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Stavyshche
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Stavyshche Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Stavyshche
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Stavyshche Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Stavyshche
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Stavyshche When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Stavyshche
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Stavyshche Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Stavyshche
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Stavyshche A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Stavyshche
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Stavyshche Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Stavyshche
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Stavyshche A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Stavyshche
