"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Pegognaga The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Pegognaga
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pegognaga Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Pegognaga
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Pegognaga Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Pegognaga
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Pegognaga Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Pegognaga
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Pegognaga You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Pegognaga
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Pegognaga When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Pegognaga
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Pegognaga "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pegognaga
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pegognaga It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "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) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Pegognaga
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Pegognaga Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Pegognaga
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Pegognaga "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Pegognaga
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. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Pegognaga "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Pegognaga
