"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Odesa Oblast Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Odesa Oblast
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 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Odesa Oblast The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Odesa Oblast
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Odesa Oblast Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Odesa Oblast
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Odesa Oblast Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Odesa Oblast
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw My other wife is beautiful. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell 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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Odesa Oblast Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Odesa Oblast
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Odesa Oblast The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Odesa Oblast
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Odesa Oblast It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Odesa Oblast
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Odesa Oblast If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Odesa Oblast
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Odesa Oblast The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Odesa Oblast
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Odesa Oblast The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Odesa Oblast
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Odesa Oblast "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Odesa Oblast
