To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Radyvyliv "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Radyvyliv
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Radyvyliv 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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Radyvyliv
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Radyvyliv "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) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Radyvyliv
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Radyvyliv If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Radyvyliv
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Radyvyliv "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Radyvyliv
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Radyvyliv Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Radyvyliv
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Radyvyliv Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Radyvyliv
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Radyvyliv "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Radyvyliv
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Radyvyliv Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Radyvyliv
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radyvyliv I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Radyvyliv
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Radyvyliv The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Radyvyliv
