Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Dubno "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Dubno
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Dubno "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Dubno
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Dubno "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 Dubno
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Dubno The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Dubno
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dubno I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Dubno
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Dubno Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Dubno
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Dubno She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Dubno
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dubno A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Dubno
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Dubno The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Dubno
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Dubno The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a rest period between romances. Dubno
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Dubno 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Dubno
