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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Perechyn Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Perechyn
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Perechyn The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Perechyn
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Perechyn Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Perechyn
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Perechyn We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Perechyn
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Perechyn My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Perechyn
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Perechyn A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Perechyn
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Perechyn "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Perechyn
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Perechyn Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Perechyn
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Perechyn If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Perechyn
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Perechyn We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Perechyn
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Perechyn "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Perechyn
