"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Kryzhopil Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "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) Kryzhopil
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Kryzhopil Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Kryzhopil
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kryzhopil My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Kryzhopil
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Kryzhopil Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Kryzhopil
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kryzhopil Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Kryzhopil
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Kryzhopil Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Kryzhopil
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Kryzhopil To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kryzhopil
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Kryzhopil Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Kryzhopil
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Kryzhopil People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Kryzhopil
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Kryzhopil Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Kryzhopil
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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. Kryzhopil Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Kryzhopil
