Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "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) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Starobilsk Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Starobilsk
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Starobilsk When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Starobilsk
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Starobilsk The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Starobilsk
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Starobilsk The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Starobilsk
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Spinster: A bachelor's wife. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Starobilsk "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 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Starobilsk
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Starobilsk Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Starobilsk
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Starobilsk Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Starobilsk
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Starobilsk For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Starobilsk
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "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) "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) Starobilsk In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Starobilsk
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Starobilsk The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Starobilsk
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Starobilsk A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Starobilsk
