People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Dodecanese "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Dodecanese
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Dodecanese The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Dodecanese
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Dodecanese "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Dodecanese
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dodecanese I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Dodecanese
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Dodecanese Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Dodecanese
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Dodecanese There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Dodecanese
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dodecanese Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Dodecanese
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Dodecanese Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Dodecanese
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Dodecanese Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Dodecanese
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Dodecanese As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Dodecanese
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Dodecanese And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Dodecanese
