If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Roncaro "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Roncaro
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Roncaro Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Roncaro
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Roncaro "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Roncaro
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Roncaro "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Roncaro
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Roncaro English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Roncaro
"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) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Roncaro Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Roncaro
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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Roncaro It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Roncaro
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Roncaro Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Roncaro
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Roncaro Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Roncaro
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Roncaro 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 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Roncaro
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Roncaro There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Roncaro
