"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Konotop What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Konotop
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Konotop Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Konotop
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Konotop All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "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) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Konotop
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Konotop "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Konotop
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Konotop "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Konotop
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Konotop Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Konotop
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Konotop "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Konotop
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Konotop The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "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) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Konotop
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Konotop Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Konotop
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Konotop Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Konotop
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Konotop "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Konotop
