"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Manevychi A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Manevychi
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Manevychi My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Manevychi
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Manevychi "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Manevychi
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Manevychi Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Manevychi
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Manevychi To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Manevychi
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Manevychi It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Manevychi
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Manevychi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "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) Manevychi
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Manevychi "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Manevychi
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Manevychi Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Manevychi
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 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Manevychi "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Manevychi
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry 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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Manevychi For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Manevychi