Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Palazzolo Sull'Oglio "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Palazzolo Sull'Oglio "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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Palazzolo Sull'Oglio I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Palazzolo Sull'Oglio Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Palazzolo Sull'Oglio My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "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) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Palazzolo Sull'Oglio Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Palazzolo Sull'Oglio My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio "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) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Palazzolo Sull'Oglio Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 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 Palazzolo Sull'Oglio Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Palazzolo Sull'Oglio I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Palazzolo Sull'Oglio
