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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bardonecchia After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 Bardonecchia
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Bardonecchia The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Bardonecchia
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Bardonecchia I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bardonecchia
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Bardonecchia "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Bardonecchia
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Bardonecchia May you never leave your marriage alive. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bardonecchia
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Bardonecchia Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Bardonecchia
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bardonecchia I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Bardonecchia
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Bardonecchia A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Bardonecchia
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Bardonecchia None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Bardonecchia
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Bardonecchia Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Bardonecchia
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Bardonecchia "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Bardonecchia
