"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 Luhansk Oblast "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Luhansk Oblast
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Luhansk Oblast "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) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Luhansk Oblast
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Luhansk Oblast Marriage is a rest period between romances. Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Luhansk Oblast
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Luhansk Oblast Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Luhansk Oblast
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Luhansk Oblast "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Luhansk Oblast
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Luhansk Oblast Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Luhansk Oblast
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Luhansk Oblast Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Luhansk Oblast
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell 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 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Luhansk Oblast We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Luhansk Oblast
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Luhansk Oblast You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 Luhansk Oblast
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Luhansk Oblast There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Luhansk Oblast
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Luhansk Oblast The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Luhansk Oblast
