Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Kostopil "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Kostopil
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Kostopil This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Kostopil
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kostopil Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Kostopil
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Kostopil Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Kostopil
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Kostopil There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Kostopil
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Kostopil A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Kostopil
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Kostopil In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Kostopil
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Kostopil We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Kostopil
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Kostopil "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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Kostopil
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Kostopil Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Kostopil
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kostopil To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kostopil
