"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Tetiyiv "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Tetiyiv
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tetiyiv Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Tetiyiv
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Tetiyiv "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tetiyiv
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Tetiyiv Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Tetiyiv
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Tetiyiv I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tetiyiv
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Tetiyiv What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Tetiyiv
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "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) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Tetiyiv "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Tetiyiv
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Tetiyiv "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Tetiyiv
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Tetiyiv Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Tetiyiv
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Tetiyiv "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Tetiyiv
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Tetiyiv "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Tetiyiv
