You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Sverdlovsk Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Sverdlovsk
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Sverdlovsk I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Sverdlovsk
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Sverdlovsk If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Sverdlovsk
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Sverdlovsk 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 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Sverdlovsk
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Sverdlovsk Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Sverdlovsk
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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Sverdlovsk There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Sverdlovsk
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sverdlovsk "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Sverdlovsk
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Sverdlovsk blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "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) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Sverdlovsk
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Sverdlovsk I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Sverdlovsk
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sverdlovsk I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Sverdlovsk
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Sverdlovsk "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) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Sverdlovsk
