In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Velyky Berezny Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Velyky Berezny
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Velyky Berezny "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Velyky Berezny
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Velyky Berezny This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Velyky Berezny
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Velyky Berezny To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Velyky Berezny
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Velyky Berezny Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Velyky Berezny
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Velyky Berezny "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Velyky Berezny
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Velyky Berezny The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Velyky Berezny
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Velyky Berezny Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Velyky Berezny
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Velyky Berezny "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Velyky Berezny
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Velyky Berezny Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Velyky Berezny
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Velyky Berezny I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Velyky Berezny
