The land of Sumy - at ArtUkraine.com - The Land of Sumy (Sumshchyna). By Hryhoriy Khvostenko, Historian. From Welcome to Ukraine Magazine Kyiv, Ukraine, Issue One, 1997. Story includes photos, and history of the area.
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Sumy Oblast A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Sumy Oblast
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Sumy Oblast It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Sumy Oblast
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Sumy Oblast blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Sumy Oblast
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Sumy Oblast Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Sumy Oblast
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Sumy Oblast Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Sumy Oblast
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Sumy Oblast "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Sumy Oblast
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Sumy Oblast Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Sumy Oblast
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Sumy Oblast Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Sumy Oblast "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Sumy Oblast
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Sumy Oblast "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Sumy Oblast
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Sumy Oblast If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "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) Sumy Oblast
