"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Bryanka If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Bryanka
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Bryanka Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Bryanka
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Bryanka "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bryanka
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Bryanka The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Bryanka
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Bryanka When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Bryanka
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Bryanka The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Bryanka
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Bryanka Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Bryanka
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Bryanka The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "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) Bryanka
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Bryanka If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Bryanka
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Bryanka When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Bryanka
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Bryanka Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Bryanka
