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"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Santa Maria Capua Vetere Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Santa Maria Capua Vetere "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Santa Maria Capua Vetere Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Santa Maria Capua Vetere
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Santa Maria Capua Vetere "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Santa Maria Capua Vetere
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Santa Maria Capua Vetere Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Santa Maria Capua Vetere
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "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) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Santa Maria Capua Vetere History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Santa Maria Capua Vetere
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 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Santa Maria Capua Vetere Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Santa Maria Capua Vetere Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Santa Maria Capua Vetere "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 Santa Maria Capua Vetere
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Santa Maria Capua Vetere "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Santa Maria Capua Vetere
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Santa Maria Capua Vetere Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Santa Maria Capua Vetere
