There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Poltava Oblast "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Poltava Oblast
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Poltava Oblast The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Poltava Oblast
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Poltava Oblast "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." Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poltava Oblast
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Poltava Oblast Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Poltava Oblast
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Poltava Oblast "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Poltava Oblast
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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Poltava Oblast Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Poltava Oblast
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Poltava Oblast There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Poltava Oblast
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Poltava Oblast Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Poltava Oblast
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Poltava Oblast Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Poltava Oblast
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Poltava Oblast Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Poltava Oblast
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Poltava Oblast "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Poltava Oblast
