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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Abruzzo Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Abruzzo
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Abruzzo "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Abruzzo
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Abruzzo They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Abruzzo
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Abruzzo Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Abruzzo
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Abruzzo blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Abruzzo
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Abruzzo If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Abruzzo
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Abruzzo The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Abruzzo
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Abruzzo To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Abruzzo
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Abruzzo If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Abruzzo
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Abruzzo Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Abruzzo
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 Abruzzo It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Abruzzo
