We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Trostyanets There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Trostyanets
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Trostyanets "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Trostyanets
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Trostyanets Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Trostyanets
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 Trostyanets UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Trostyanets
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Trostyanets In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Trostyanets
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Trostyanets There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Trostyanets
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "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) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trostyanets Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Trostyanets
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trostyanets "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Trostyanets
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Trostyanets If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Trostyanets
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Trostyanets I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Trostyanets
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Trostyanets The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Trostyanets
