"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Francavilla sul Sinni All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Francavilla sul Sinni
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Francavilla sul Sinni Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Francavilla sul Sinni
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Francavilla sul Sinni We learn from experience that men never learn anything from 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 always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Francavilla sul Sinni
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Francavilla sul Sinni "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Francavilla sul Sinni
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Francavilla sul Sinni "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Francavilla sul Sinni
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Francavilla sul Sinni The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Francavilla sul Sinni
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Francavilla sul Sinni Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Francavilla sul Sinni
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "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) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Francavilla sul Sinni Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Francavilla sul Sinni
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Francavilla sul Sinni No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Francavilla sul Sinni
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Francavilla sul Sinni "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Francavilla sul Sinni
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Francavilla sul Sinni "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Francavilla sul Sinni
