The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Ochakiv 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Ochakiv
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Ochakiv When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Ochakiv
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Ochakiv Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Ochakiv
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Ochakiv "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Ochakiv
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Ochakiv Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Ochakiv
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Ochakiv I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Ochakiv
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Ochakiv Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Ochakiv
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 Ochakiv "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ochakiv
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Ochakiv "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Ochakiv
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Ochakiv Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Ochakiv
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ochakiv Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Ochakiv
