Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Zhydachiv Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Zhydachiv
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Zhydachiv "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Zhydachiv
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Zhydachiv Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Zhydachiv
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Zhydachiv Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Zhydachiv
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Zhydachiv "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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' Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Zhydachiv
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Zhydachiv All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Zhydachiv
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Zhydachiv Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 Zhydachiv
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Zhydachiv A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Zhydachiv
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zhydachiv Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Zhydachiv
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Zhydachiv I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Zhydachiv
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Zhydachiv Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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) Zhydachiv
