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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Corneliano d'Alba To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corneliano d'Alba
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Corneliano d'Alba Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Corneliano d'Alba
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Corneliano d'Alba Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Corneliano d'Alba
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Corneliano d'Alba Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Corneliano d'Alba
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "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." One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Corneliano d'Alba My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Corneliano d'Alba
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) What's new? Most of my wife. Corneliano d'Alba Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Corneliano d'Alba
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "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) Corneliano d'Alba What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 Corneliano d'Alba
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corneliano d'Alba I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Corneliano d'Alba
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Corneliano d'Alba I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Corneliano d'Alba
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Corneliano d'Alba Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Corneliano d'Alba
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Corneliano d'Alba "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Corneliano d'Alba
