Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
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"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Ponte San Marco I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Ponte San Marco "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
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Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ponte San Marco It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Ponte San Marco "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Ponte San Marco You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Ponte San Marco
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Ponte San Marco Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Ponte San Marco
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Ponte San Marco What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Ponte San Marco
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Ponte San Marco "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Ponte San Marco The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ponte San Marco
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ponte San Marco "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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