Drohobych - Article about the city by The Columbia Encyclopedia.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Drohobych Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Drohobych
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Drohobych Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Drohobych
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Drohobych 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. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Drohobych
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Drohobych What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Drohobych
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Drohobych One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Drohobych
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Drohobych "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Drohobych
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George 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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Drohobych "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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' Drohobych
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Drohobych Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Drohobych
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 Drohobych "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Drohobych
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Drohobych If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Drohobych
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Drohobych Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Drohobych
