Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Zaporizhia Oblast "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Zaporizhia Oblast
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Zaporizhia Oblast Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Zaporizhia Oblast
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zaporizhia Oblast "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Zaporizhia Oblast
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Zaporizhia Oblast "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Zaporizhia Oblast
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Zaporizhia Oblast At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Zaporizhia Oblast
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Zaporizhia Oblast 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Zaporizhia Oblast
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Zaporizhia Oblast There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Zaporizhia Oblast
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Zaporizhia Oblast The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really 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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Zaporizhia Oblast
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Zaporizhia Oblast The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Zaporizhia Oblast
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Zaporizhia Oblast My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) 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 Zaporizhia Oblast
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Zaporizhia Oblast If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Zaporizhia Oblast
