Heraldic of Ukraine - Includes the State symbols of Ukraine, Land's heraldry, City's heraldry, and Ukrainian het'man emblems.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Society and Culture I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Society and Culture
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Society and Culture Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Society and Culture
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, 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 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Society and Culture "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture 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 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Society and Culture
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Society and Culture "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Society and Culture
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell 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) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Society and Culture One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings 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 Society and Culture America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture
