To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lviv What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Lviv
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "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) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Lviv "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Lviv
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 Lviv We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Lviv
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Lviv Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Lviv
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Lviv Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Lviv
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Lviv To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Lviv
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lviv We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Lviv
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Lviv I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Lviv
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Lviv Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey 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 Lviv
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Lviv In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Lviv
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Lviv 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) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Lviv
