"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Cosenza Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Cosenza
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Cosenza Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Cosenza
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Cosenza Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Cosenza
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Cosenza "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Cosenza
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a rest period between romances. Cosenza Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Cosenza
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Cosenza "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Cosenza
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Cosenza You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Cosenza
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Cosenza "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Cosenza
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Cosenza The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Cosenza
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Cosenza My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Cosenza
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Cosenza "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cosenza
