We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Brusyliv Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Brusyliv
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Brusyliv Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Brusyliv
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Brusyliv I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Brusyliv
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 Brusyliv Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brusyliv
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Brusyliv 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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Brusyliv
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Brusyliv "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Brusyliv
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Brusyliv The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Brusyliv
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Brusyliv When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Brusyliv
"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, Alice in Wonderland Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Brusyliv As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Brusyliv
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "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." Brusyliv Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Brusyliv
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Brusyliv "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Brusyliv
