Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Horokhiv Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Horokhiv
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Horokhiv Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Horokhiv
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Horokhiv Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Horokhiv
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Horokhiv There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Horokhiv
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Horokhiv Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Horokhiv
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Horokhiv "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Horokhiv
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Horokhiv Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Horokhiv
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Horokhiv I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Horokhiv
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Horokhiv "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Horokhiv
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Horokhiv "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Horokhiv
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Horokhiv Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Horokhiv
