"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Rubizhne I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Rubizhne
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Rubizhne The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Rubizhne
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Rubizhne The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Rubizhne
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Rubizhne Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Rubizhne
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Rubizhne All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Rubizhne
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Rubizhne The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Rubizhne
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Rubizhne Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Rubizhne
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rubizhne The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Rubizhne
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Rubizhne Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Rubizhne
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rubizhne None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Rubizhne
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "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) Rubizhne There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Rubizhne
