Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Amalfi 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 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Amalfi
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Amalfi The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Amalfi
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "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) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Amalfi If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Amalfi
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Amalfi The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Amalfi
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 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Amalfi Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Amalfi
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Amalfi Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Amalfi
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Amalfi The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Amalfi
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Amalfi We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Amalfi
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Amalfi 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Amalfi
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Amalfi This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Amalfi
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Amalfi The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Amalfi
