A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 Tyachiv I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine 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 Tyachiv
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Tyachiv You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Tyachiv
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 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Tyachiv There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Tyachiv
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Tyachiv Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Tyachiv
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Tyachiv This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Tyachiv
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Tyachiv Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Tyachiv
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Tyachiv Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Tyachiv
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Tyachiv Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Tyachiv
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Tyachiv We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Tyachiv
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Tyachiv Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Tyachiv
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Tyachiv It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Tyachiv
