"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Perevalsk "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Perevalsk
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Perevalsk "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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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 ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Perevalsk She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Perevalsk
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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Perevalsk As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Perevalsk
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Perevalsk If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "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) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Perevalsk
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Perevalsk I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Perevalsk
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Perevalsk Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Perevalsk
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Perevalsk Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Perevalsk
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Perevalsk I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Perevalsk
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) 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 Perevalsk For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Perevalsk
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Perevalsk "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Perevalsk
