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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude Emilia-Romagna Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Emilia-Romagna
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Emilia-Romagna There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Emilia-Romagna
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Emilia-Romagna When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Emilia-Romagna
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Emilia-Romagna Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Emilia-Romagna
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Emilia-Romagna I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Emilia-Romagna
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Emilia-Romagna "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, Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Emilia-Romagna
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Emilia-Romagna Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Emilia-Romagna
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Emilia-Romagna There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Emilia-Romagna
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Emilia-Romagna If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Emilia-Romagna
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Emilia-Romagna Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Emilia-Romagna
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Emilia-Romagna Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Emilia-Romagna
