A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Padula The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Padula
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Padula "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Padula
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Padula "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "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 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Padula
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Padula I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Padula
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Padula "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Padula
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Padula There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Padula
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Padula A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Padula
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Padula "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Padula
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Padula What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Padula
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Padula Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Padula
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Padula "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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. "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, Padula
