Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lyubeshiv A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Lyubeshiv
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Lyubeshiv A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Lyubeshiv
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Lyubeshiv Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Lyubeshiv
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lyubeshiv Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lyubeshiv
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lyubeshiv May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Lyubeshiv
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Lyubeshiv If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Lyubeshiv
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lyubeshiv Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Lyubeshiv
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Lyubeshiv Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Lyubeshiv
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Lyubeshiv Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Lyubeshiv
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Lyubeshiv "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Lyubeshiv
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Lyubeshiv "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Lyubeshiv
