No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Mykolaiv Oblast Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Mykolaiv Oblast
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Mykolaiv Oblast 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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Mykolaiv Oblast
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Mykolaiv Oblast "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Mykolaiv Oblast
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Mykolaiv Oblast 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Mykolaiv Oblast
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Mykolaiv Oblast The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "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) Mykolaiv Oblast
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Mykolaiv Oblast Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Mykolaiv Oblast
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Mykolaiv Oblast I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mykolaiv Oblast
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Mykolaiv Oblast You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Mykolaiv Oblast
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Mykolaiv Oblast A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Mykolaiv Oblast
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mykolaiv Oblast "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Mykolaiv Oblast
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins 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 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Mykolaiv Oblast When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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. Mykolaiv Oblast
