Castelgrande - History, images, and description of a small village.
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Castelgrande "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Castelgrande
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Castelgrande Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Castelgrande
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Castelgrande "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Castelgrande
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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Castelgrande "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) Castelgrande
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Castelgrande "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Castelgrande
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 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 Castelgrande A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Castelgrande
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Castelgrande We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Castelgrande
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Castelgrande "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Castelgrande
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Castelgrande Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Castelgrande
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Castelgrande Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Castelgrande
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Castelgrande Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Castelgrande
