Litopys UPA - Chronicle of Ukrainian Insurgent Army
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Military I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Military
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Military "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Military
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Military "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Military
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Military What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Military
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Military Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Military
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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. Military I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Military
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Military Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Military
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Military Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Military
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Military The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Military
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Military He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Military
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Military Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Military