Dr Massimo Mangialavori - A doctor in Modena using homeopathic remedies. CV, cases and articles, courses, publications. Humor from Dr Bufo.
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Alternative Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Alternative
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Alternative They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Alternative
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Alternative The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Alternative
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Alternative People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Alternative
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Alternative 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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Alternative
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Alternative None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Alternative
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Alternative Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Alternative
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Alternative Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Alternative
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Alternative Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Alternative
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Alternative Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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) Alternative
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Alternative May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Alternative
