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impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston 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. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Procida "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) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Procida
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Procida Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle 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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Procida
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Procida "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Procida
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Procida "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Procida
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Procida The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Procida
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Procida "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Procida
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Procida To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 Procida
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Procida We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Procida
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Procida When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Procida
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Procida Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Procida
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 Procida A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Procida
