Gunshop - Page of links to the web-sites of Italian gun-makers and engravers.
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Guns We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "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) Guns
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Guns "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Guns
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Guns Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician 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 Guns
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Guns No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Guns
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Guns A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Guns
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Guns But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Guns
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Guns Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Guns
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Guns Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Guns
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Guns "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Guns
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "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) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Guns Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guns
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "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) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Guns You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Guns
