Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Torre de' Passeri I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Torre de' Passeri
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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Torre de' Passeri A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Torre de' Passeri
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Torre de' Passeri Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Torre de' Passeri
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Torre de' Passeri "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Torre de' Passeri
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Torre de' Passeri It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Torre de' Passeri
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Torre de' Passeri I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Torre de' Passeri
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Torre de' Passeri It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Torre de' Passeri
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Torre de' Passeri There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Torre de' Passeri
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Torre de' Passeri Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Torre de' Passeri
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 Torre de' Passeri A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "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) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Torre de' Passeri
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Torre de' Passeri "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Torre de' Passeri
