"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Kyrylivka "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Kyrylivka
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Kyrylivka It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kyrylivka
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Kyrylivka "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Kyrylivka
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kyrylivka He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Kyrylivka
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Kyrylivka Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Kyrylivka
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kyrylivka "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Kyrylivka
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Kyrylivka The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Kyrylivka
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Kyrylivka "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Kyrylivka
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Kyrylivka A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Kyrylivka
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Kyrylivka Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Kyrylivka
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Kyrylivka A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Kyrylivka