Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Dubrovytsia Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Dubrovytsia
"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" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Dubrovytsia They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Dubrovytsia
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Dubrovytsia First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Dubrovytsia
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Dubrovytsia If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Dubrovytsia
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 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Dubrovytsia It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Dubrovytsia
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Dubrovytsia If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Dubrovytsia
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Dubrovytsia "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Dubrovytsia
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Dubrovytsia Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Dubrovytsia
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Dubrovytsia Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Dubrovytsia
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Dubrovytsia A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Dubrovytsia
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Dubrovytsia Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Dubrovytsia