"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Izmayil Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Izmayil
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Izmayil I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Izmayil
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Izmayil "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Izmayil
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Izmayil "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Izmayil
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Izmayil 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 Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Izmayil
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Izmayil Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Izmayil
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Izmayil Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Izmayil
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Izmayil If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Izmayil
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Izmayil Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Izmayil
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Izmayil Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Izmayil
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Izmayil "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Izmayil
