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Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Rovato Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Rovato
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Rovato Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
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-- Roger Babson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Rovato
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Rovato Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Rovato
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Rovato Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Rovato
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Rovato Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Rovato
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Rovato Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Rovato
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Rovato What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Rovato
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Rovato Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Rovato
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "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) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Rovato Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Rovato
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Rovato Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Rovato
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Rovato It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
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