When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Lutsk Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 Lutsk
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Lutsk Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Lutsk
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Lutsk Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Lutsk
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Lutsk Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lutsk
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Lutsk Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Lutsk
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Lutsk "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Lutsk
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Lutsk A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Lutsk
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Lutsk Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Lutsk
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Lutsk Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Lutsk
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Lutsk "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lutsk
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Lutsk Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Lutsk
