Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Rivne Oblast By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Rivne Oblast
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rivne Oblast I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rivne Oblast
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "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) Rivne Oblast If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Rivne Oblast
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Rivne Oblast I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Rivne Oblast
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Rivne Oblast The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein My other wife is beautiful. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rivne Oblast
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Rivne Oblast "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Rivne Oblast
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Rivne Oblast The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Rivne Oblast
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Rivne Oblast Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Rivne Oblast
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain 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 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Rivne Oblast He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Rivne Oblast
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, It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Rivne Oblast One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Rivne Oblast
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Rivne Oblast "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Rivne Oblast
