"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Basilicata No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Basilicata
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Basilicata "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Basilicata
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Basilicata People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Basilicata
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Basilicata What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Basilicata
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Basilicata Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Basilicata
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Basilicata "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 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 Basilicata
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Basilicata Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Basilicata
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Basilicata Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Basilicata
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Basilicata I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Basilicata
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Basilicata Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Basilicata
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Basilicata My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Basilicata
