Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Pisticci "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Pisticci
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Pisticci Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Pisticci
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pisticci Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Pisticci
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Pisticci Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pisticci
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Pisticci Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Pisticci
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Pisticci When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Pisticci
"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) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Pisticci blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Pisticci
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Pisticci "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Pisticci
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Man and wife make one fool. Pisticci Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Pisticci
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Pisticci If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Pisticci
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Pisticci I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pisticci
