"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Reggio Emilia "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Reggio Emilia
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Reggio Emilia The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Reggio Emilia
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Reggio Emilia Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Reggio Emilia
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Reggio Emilia All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reggio Emilia
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Reggio Emilia The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "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) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Reggio Emilia
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Nietzsche Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Reggio Emilia It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Reggio Emilia
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Reggio Emilia "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Reggio Emilia
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign 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 Reggio Emilia A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Reggio Emilia
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Reggio Emilia Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Reggio Emilia
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Reggio Emilia Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Reggio Emilia
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Reggio Emilia They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Reggio Emilia
