The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "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) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) San Pellegrino Terme "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner San Pellegrino Terme
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer San Pellegrino Terme "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau San Pellegrino Terme
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James San Pellegrino Terme "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) San Pellegrino Terme
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 San Pellegrino Terme "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop San Pellegrino Terme
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes San Pellegrino Terme There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz San Pellegrino Terme
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 San Pellegrino Terme In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) San Pellegrino Terme
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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
comfort us along "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson San Pellegrino Terme This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) San Pellegrino Terme
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) San Pellegrino Terme As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician San Pellegrino Terme
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi San Pellegrino Terme "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) San Pellegrino Terme
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) San Pellegrino Terme Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx San Pellegrino Terme
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer San Pellegrino Terme "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson San Pellegrino Terme
