I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Avellino There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Avellino
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Avellino "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Avellino
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Avellino The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Avellino
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Avellino One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Avellino
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Avellino The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Avellino
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Avellino Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Avellino
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Avellino A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Avellino
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Avellino 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Avellino
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Avellino Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Avellino
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Avellino "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Avellino
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Avellino I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Avellino
