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Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Moncalieri If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Moncalieri
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Moncalieri Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Moncalieri
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Moncalieri Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Moncalieri
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Moncalieri "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Moncalieri
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Moncalieri The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Moncalieri
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Moncalieri Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Moncalieri
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Moncalieri For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Moncalieri
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Moncalieri I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Moncalieri
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Moncalieri A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 Moncalieri
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "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) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Moncalieri I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Moncalieri
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "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) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Moncalieri To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Moncalieri
