Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Giussago In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Giussago
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Giussago If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Giussago
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giussago It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Giussago
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Giussago "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Giussago
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Giussago A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Giussago
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. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Giussago I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Giussago
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Giussago For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Giussago
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Giussago "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Giussago
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Giussago Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Giussago
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 Unha Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Giussago Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Giussago
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Giussago When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Giussago
