When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Volyn Oblast As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Volyn Oblast
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "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." Volyn Oblast The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Volyn Oblast
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Volyn Oblast Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Volyn Oblast
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Volyn Oblast 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 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Volyn Oblast
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Volyn Oblast "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) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Volyn Oblast
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Volyn Oblast 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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Volyn Oblast
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Volyn Oblast I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Volyn Oblast
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Volyn Oblast "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Volyn Oblast
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Volyn Oblast "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Volyn Oblast
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Volyn Oblast Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Volyn Oblast
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Volyn Oblast "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Volyn Oblast
