"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Bolhrad "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bolhrad
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Bolhrad The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bolhrad
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Bolhrad Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Bolhrad
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Bolhrad May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bolhrad
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Bolhrad Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Bolhrad
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Bolhrad Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Bolhrad
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bolhrad This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Bolhrad
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Bolhrad "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Bolhrad
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Bolhrad Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Bolhrad
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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 Bolhrad For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Bolhrad
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Bolhrad There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Bolhrad
