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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Castelletto Molina The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Castelletto Molina
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Castelletto Molina We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Castelletto Molina
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Castelletto Molina Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Castelletto Molina
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Castelletto Molina "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Castelletto Molina
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Castelletto Molina Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Castelletto Molina
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Castelletto Molina blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Castelletto Molina
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Castelletto Molina "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Castelletto Molina
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Castelletto Molina Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Castelletto Molina
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Castelletto Molina He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Castelletto Molina
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Castelletto Molina "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Castelletto Molina
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Castelletto Molina This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Castelletto Molina
