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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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-- Jacques Barzun If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Montichiari
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Montichiari The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Montichiari "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Montichiari
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Montichiari In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Montichiari
"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-) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Montichiari Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Montichiari
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Montichiari 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 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Montichiari
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Montichiari Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Montichiari
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Montichiari Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Montichiari
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "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) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Montichiari Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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 Montichiari
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Montichiari In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Montichiari The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Montichiari
