The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Korosten' Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Korosten'
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Korosten' "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Korosten'
"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) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Korosten' We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Korosten'
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Korosten' The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Korosten'
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Korosten' blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Korosten'
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Korosten' Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Korosten'
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Korosten' "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Korosten'
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Korosten' Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Korosten'
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Korosten' I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Korosten'
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Korosten' We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Korosten'
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Korosten' The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Korosten'
