I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Svalyava The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Svalyava
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "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 Svalyava Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Svalyava
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Svalyava "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Svalyava
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Svalyava Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai 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 Svalyava
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Svalyava The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Svalyava
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Svalyava University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Svalyava
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Svalyava "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Svalyava
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Svalyava Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna 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 Svalyava
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Svalyava A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Svalyava
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Svalyava It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Svalyava
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Svalyava "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Svalyava
