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For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Menaggio Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Menaggio
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Menaggio Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar 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 Menaggio
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Menaggio I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Menaggio
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Menaggio "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Menaggio
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Menaggio Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Menaggio
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Menaggio The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Menaggio
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Menaggio "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Menaggio
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "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) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Menaggio "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Menaggio
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Menaggio A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Menaggio
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Menaggio Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Menaggio
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Menaggio He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Menaggio
