May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bilhorod Dnistrovsky We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Bilhorod Dnistrovsky "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Bilhorod Dnistrovsky Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Bilhorod Dnistrovsky Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Bilhorod Dnistrovsky The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Bilhorod Dnistrovsky I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Bilhorod Dnistrovsky He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Bilhorod Dnistrovsky "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Bilhorod Dnistrovsky Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Bilhorod Dnistrovsky "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Bilhorod Dnistrovsky "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) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Bilhorod Dnistrovsky
