Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Boryslav "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Boryslav
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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Boryslav Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Boryslav
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Boryslav Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Boryslav
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Boryslav May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Boryslav
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Boryslav I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Boryslav
"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..." ( Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Boryslav "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "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) Boryslav
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Boryslav A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Boryslav
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Boryslav "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Boryslav
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Boryslav When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Boryslav
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Boryslav Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Boryslav
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Boryslav If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Boryslav
