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The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Gravellona Toce Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Gravellona Toce
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Gravellona Toce Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Gravellona Toce
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Gravellona Toce It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Gravellona Toce
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Gravellona Toce Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Gravellona Toce
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Gravellona Toce A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Gravellona Toce
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Gravellona Toce If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Gravellona Toce
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Gravellona Toce The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gravellona Toce
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Gravellona Toce 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Gravellona Toce
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gravellona Toce "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Gravellona Toce
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Gravellona Toce Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Gravellona Toce
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Gravellona Toce "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Gravellona Toce
