"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Krasnyy Luch People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Krasnyy Luch
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Krasnyy Luch A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Krasnyy Luch
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "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) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Krasnyy Luch cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 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 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Krasnyy Luch
What's new? Most of my wife. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Krasnyy Luch If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Krasnyy Luch
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Krasnyy Luch What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Krasnyy Luch
"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) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "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) Krasnyy Luch 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 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Krasnyy Luch
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Krasnyy Luch When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Krasnyy Luch
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Krasnyy Luch "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Krasnyy Luch
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Krasnyy Luch "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Krasnyy Luch
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Krasnyy Luch I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Krasnyy Luch
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Krasnyy Luch My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Krasnyy Luch
