When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Reggio Calabria He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Reggio Calabria
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Reggio Calabria It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Reggio Calabria
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous 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. 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 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Reggio Calabria The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Reggio Calabria
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Reggio Calabria Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Reggio Calabria
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Reggio Calabria Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reggio Calabria
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Reggio Calabria "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Reggio Calabria
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 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Reggio Calabria 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Reggio Calabria
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Reggio Calabria blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Reggio Calabria
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Reggio Calabria A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Reggio Calabria
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Reggio Calabria "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Reggio Calabria
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Reggio Calabria Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Reggio Calabria
