You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Molinetto di Mazzano I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Molinetto di Mazzano
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Molinetto di Mazzano 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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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. Molinetto di Mazzano
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 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Molinetto di Mazzano Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Molinetto di Mazzano
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Molinetto di Mazzano Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Molinetto di Mazzano
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Molinetto di Mazzano He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Molinetto di Mazzano
"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) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Molinetto di Mazzano "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Molinetto di Mazzano
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Molinetto di Mazzano "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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Molinetto di Mazzano
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Molinetto di Mazzano More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Molinetto di Mazzano
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Molinetto di Mazzano "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Molinetto di Mazzano
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Molinetto di Mazzano It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Molinetto di Mazzano
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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Molinetto di Mazzano "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Molinetto di Mazzano
