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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "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) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Pisciotta There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Pisciotta
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Pisciotta The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Pisciotta
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Pisciotta The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Pisciotta
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Pisciotta Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Pisciotta
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Pisciotta Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Pisciotta
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Pisciotta A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Pisciotta
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Pisciotta If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Pisciotta
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! 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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Pisciotta Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "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) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Pisciotta
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Pisciotta "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 Pisciotta
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Pisciotta The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Pisciotta
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Pisciotta Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "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) Pisciotta
