"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Omegna Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Omegna
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Omegna For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Omegna
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Omegna America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Omegna
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Omegna The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Omegna
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Omegna May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Omegna
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "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) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Omegna Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Omegna
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Omegna The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Omegna
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Omegna Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Omegna
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Omegna Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Omegna
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Omegna "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your 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 Omegna
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Omegna All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Omegna
