Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Kuznetsovsk With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Kuznetsovsk
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra 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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Kuznetsovsk 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Kuznetsovsk
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Kuznetsovsk "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Kuznetsovsk
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 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Kuznetsovsk blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Kuznetsovsk
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Kuznetsovsk "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Kuznetsovsk
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Kuznetsovsk When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Kuznetsovsk
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Kuznetsovsk "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Kuznetsovsk
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Kuznetsovsk Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Kuznetsovsk
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Kuznetsovsk "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Kuznetsovsk
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Kuznetsovsk "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Kuznetsovsk
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Kuznetsovsk We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Kuznetsovsk
