"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Rava Ruska I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Rava Ruska
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Rava Ruska The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Rava Ruska
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Rava Ruska "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Rava Ruska
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Rava Ruska If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Rava Ruska
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Rava Ruska We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Rava Ruska
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Rava Ruska Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Rava Ruska
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Rava Ruska Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Rava Ruska
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Rava Ruska Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Rava Ruska
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Rava Ruska The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Rava Ruska
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Rava Ruska I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Rava Ruska
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Rava Ruska The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Rava Ruska
