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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Caserta "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Caserta
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Caserta It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Caserta As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Caserta
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Caserta We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Caserta
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Caserta Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Caserta
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Caserta For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) 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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Caserta "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Caserta
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Caserta "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 Caserta
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.
-- Anonymous May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Caserta All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Caserta
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Caserta "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Caserta
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Caserta All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Caserta
