Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Rakhiv "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Rakhiv
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rakhiv It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Rakhiv
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Rakhiv "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Rakhiv
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Rakhiv Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Rakhiv
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Rakhiv A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Rakhiv
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Rakhiv All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Rakhiv
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Rakhiv The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Rakhiv
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Rakhiv We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Rakhiv
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Rakhiv Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Rakhiv
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Rakhiv Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 Rakhiv
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Rakhiv I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Rakhiv
