ZX News #03 28 февраля 1997

clever ideas - Smart thoughts of great men.

(C) ollected by Bob Klubov



             Clever idea.


Started confidently ends doubts;
he who begins the way in doubt, finish it in confidence.

Hope good breakfast but a bad supper.

Laws like the web: small insects
entangled in it, big-ever.

Every person on my mind, is a debtor of his profession.

That in essence, wrong in that a
My friend loves more than me?

As in nature, and the State change a lot handier than one thing.

Innovations like the newborn: the
Initially, they are extremely not good.

Control nature can only be obeying her.



               Francis Bacon (1561-1626)



Humility - a virtue, modesty -
vice.

The blind man will thank you for the mirror.

Many would be cowards if they had more courage.

If you have no enemies - it means happiness
turned away from you.

Learn from mistakes only fools, great
one who neglects his own experience.

All glory is dangerous: kind excites
envy, bad - shame.

In love wars, winning the one who first ran from the 
battlefield. 

Reconciled with each - the enemy twice.

Education makes a good man
better, and bad-worse.

The fact that poorly tolerated, with tenderness
remembered.



                Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)



There is a certain limit, after which the shutter, self cease 
to be a virtue. 

There is a widespread misconception is that the most zealous 
guardians interests of the people most care about

his welfare.

A perfect democracy - the most shameful
the thing on earth.

Someone who is struggling with us, strengthens our
nerves and sharpens our skills and abilities. Our enemy is our 
ally. 

To be a true patriot, you should not forget that we are first 
and foremost gentlemen, and then to the patriots. 

Those who have something to hope and nothing to
to lose - the most dangerous people in the world.

Manners are more important than laws, because
from them, and laws vary.



                 Edmund Burke (1729-1797)



What a pity that in England there are no other
entertainment, except for sin and religion!

Most advantageous to be low man
capable of a gesture.

Underlying all the more significant changes is a compromise.

Except for numbers, there is nothing more
deceptive than facts.

Living in the village, I'm always afraid that the universe will 
collapse before the evening tea. 

I've never met a man who was
would be able to think two minutes in a row.

Knowledge - power, omniscience - a weakness.

At the end of life superior feel, only those who in the 
beginning felt inferiority. 



                 Sydney Smith (1771-1845)



We speak little if not talking about myself.

Only those worthy of the monument, who in it
does not need.

He who fears make enemies, never
will lead not true friends.

No one truly great man
considered himself a great man.

In the good deeds we did repent
no less than evil.

No more worthless, stupid, despicable, pathetic, selfish, 
vindictive, jealous and ungrateful animal than the crowd. She - 
the greatest coward For fear itself.


Outright hostility is always suspicious and gives the secret 
kinship of souls. 

Without the help of customs and superstitions, I could not
would pass from one end of the room to another.

Never feel sorry for people that did wrong. They are only 
waiting for an opportunity the case so badly to do the same 
with others. 

In envy, among others, was mortgaged and love of justice.



              William Hazlitt (1778-1830)



Any reform, apart from moral, worthless

Well-written life - such as rare as a well-lived.

The audience - a sick old woman. Let them
whine and capricious.

Democracy - is the need to reconcile
that govern us are not heroes.

Metaphysics - it is an attempt of the mind to rise
the mind.

All great peoples are conservative: wary of innovation,
tend not to trust the facts.

The principal organ of the human body, the unshakable 
foundation on which rests the soul, a purse. 

If Jesus Christ came today,
one would not crucify him. He would
invited to dinner, listened to and from the heart
laugh



              Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)



Human progress is based on
desire of every person to live beyond
Drugs.

Art can be learned only by those
who earn their bread.

It is believed that the love of money - the root of
all ills. The same can be said about the lack of money.

Life - the art of extracting significant benefits of the minor 
circumstances. 

Live - the same as the love: reason against it,
healthy instinct - for.

Ultimately, the pleasure - more
reliable guide than the rightness or duty.

Brigands demand your money or your life;
women - and then another.



               Samuel Butler (1835-1902)



Never travel without a diary.
Fascinating reading should be on the road.

Art is nothing but himself
itself.

Vanities - the last refuge of a loser.

In this world there are only two tragedies. The first - if not 
ensure that what you want, second - when driving at.


Moderation is fatal. Success comes only to those excesses.

Skepticism - the beginning of faith.

The audience is surprisingly broad-minded, and she forgives 
everything except genius. 

Only our duty to history -
it is constantly rewritten.

Life is too serious a thing to talk about it seriously.

Philosophy teaches us with equanimity refers to the failure of 
others. 

In our time every great man is his disciples, and his biography
always says Jude.

A man can be happy with any woman - on condition that he not 
love her. 



                Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)



Faith, as such, we have not lost and we
merely transferred it from God to the profession
medic.

- Freedom is responsibility. That's why its so afraid.

Revolution will never ease the burden of tyranny, they only 
shifted the burden of this from one shoulder to another.


Beware of someone who does not meet the impact
Impact: he will not forgive you, and do not give
You forgive yourself.

He who neither believes in nothing, afraid of everything.

Genius does what it must, talent is
that it can.

Nobel Prize - this is life
circle the swimmer who quit when he
have safely reached the shore.

Democracy - a guarantee that we have managed no better than we 
deserve. 

The secret of success is to offend as many people.

Newspaper - this organ is not seeing
difference between the fall of the bicycle and
collapse of civilization.

If a person wants to kill the tiger - it's called sport; if the 
tiger wants to murder man, this is called cruelty. In

This, in fact, is the difference between crime and justice.

Reputation doctor depends on the number of outstanding 
personalities, which he sent to that light.




                 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)



Boredom - a serious problem for the moralist, since boredom is 
performed at least half of all the sins of mankind.


Those who are unhappy, as well as those who
suffers from insomnia, always proud of it.

It is sad, people agree
only the fact that they are essentially not interested.

Even in civilized society, the instinct
monogamy sometimes makes itself felt.

Patriotism - the willingness to kill and
to be killed by the most trivial reasons.

Bad philosophers may have some
influence in society; good - ever.

From the conversation with the scientist husband every time I
draw the conclusion that happiness is not given to us;
When I speak with the gardener, then convince her otherwise.

Few can be completely happy
without feeling hatred towards another person, nation or 
religion. 

We live double standards: one confess, but do not use in 
practice, and another use in practice, but very rarely confess. 

Envy - the foundation of democracy.

Any exact science is based on about.



              Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)



Artistic temperament - a disease which affects all amateurs.

Journalism - a phrase such as "Lord John
died, "targeting people who never
who did not know that Lord John was still alive.

It's not that the world has become much worse, and that 
coverage was much better.


Psychoanalysis - a confession without absolution.

If you do not want to violate the Ten Commandments - so you 
create something wrong.


Nothing brings in this age of greater sadness than amusement.

The quest for free love is equivalent to
desire to become a married bachelor or a white negro.

Critics ignore the wise advice not
throw stones if you live in a greenhouse.

The growing need for a strong man - an irrefutable sign of 
weakness. 

Can only be one biography - autobiography, a list of the same 
strange behavior and emotion - not a biography, and zoology, a 
description of the habits outlandish beast. 

Art is always limiting, meaning
every picture in its frame.

A good novel tells the reader
the truth about the hero; bad - the truth about the author.



      Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)



Dictators ride a tiger, afraid
with them to get off. And the Tigers, meanwhile begin to 
experience hunger. 

Political talent is the ability to
predict what might happen tomorrow,
Next week, a month or
year. And then explain why it did not
happened.

Writing a book - an adventure.
First book - is nothing more than fun
then it becomes a mistress, a wife,
master, and finally - a tyrant.

Russian is always underrated, but between
so they can keep secrets, not only
from enemies, but also from friends.

Peacemaker - is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that will be 
eaten last. 

Every medal is not only shines, but
casts a shadow.

Consultation - this is when a man asked: "Do you mind if we cut 
off the head you tomorrow?" - And learning that he against, the 
next day his head chopped off. 

The world extends a huge number of
false stories, and worse of all,
a good half of them - the truth.

Time and money are largely interchangeable.

A person can forgive a man anything
except bad prose.

Conscience in isolation from the truth, no more than
foolishness, it regrettable, but not respect.

The main drawback of capitalism - the unequal distribution of 
blessings, the main advantage of socialism - the equal 
distribution of deprivation. 



            Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



To that people do not learn from the mistakes of history - the 
most important lesson of history. 

The sequence is equally bad for
mind and body. The sequence of alien
life is alien to nature. Until the end of a sequence of only 
the dead. 

Death - the only thing that we do not
managed to finally debase.

I can sympathize with the suffering of people
but not their joys. In someone else's happiness is
something to be extremely depressing.

Write a bad book is as difficult as
good - and even more difficult, because poor
writer writes from the soul "and" heart. "

In all consider themselves to be right, only those
who achieved something in life. Something, but
a little bit.

Experience - this is not what happens to a man, and what makes 
people so what happens to him.


Art - one of the ways to save
life, rambling, nonsensical and deeply flawed.

From the standpoint of individual sheep,
lambs and goats, there is no such thing as a "good shepherd."



                Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)



England - it ... House of the Victorian model, where all the 
cabinets are filled to the limit skeletons.


Catholics and Communists general that
they both believe if their opponent can not be both honest and
smart.

The quickest way to end the war -
it is defeat.

We, the representatives of the middle class
but the correct pronunciation, to lose
nothing.

Dishonesty - the main enemy of clear speech.

While the saints do not prove their innocence, they should be 
considered guilty. 

Leaders who promise to his people
Blood, toil, tears and sweat, enjoy more credibility than a 
policy, promising wealth and prosperity.


It is an undeniable sign of genius: his book
do not like women.



                George Orwell (1903-1950)



Read - means to translate, since it does not happen in the 
world of two people who would match experience. Poor reader 
akin to a bad interpreter: it takes literally what should be 
understood figuratively, and vice versa. 

Some books undeservedly forgotten,
but none that would unfairly
remembered.

When the reviewer calls the book a sincere, immediately becomes 
clear: the book 

  a) insincere,

  b) poorly written.

There is nothing worse than a bad poem
which was conceived as a grand.

You can not have freedom without the right to violate
it.



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