"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) San Martino Alfieri I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) San Martino Alfieri
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa San Martino Alfieri He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb San Martino Alfieri
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") San Martino Alfieri Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody San Martino Alfieri
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) San Martino Alfieri The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton San Martino Alfieri
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' San Martino Alfieri "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason San Martino Alfieri
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain San Martino Alfieri All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 "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 San Martino Alfieri
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer 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 San Martino Alfieri Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett San Martino Alfieri
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) San Martino Alfieri "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O San Martino Alfieri
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) San Martino Alfieri "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns San Martino Alfieri
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) San Martino Alfieri "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber San Martino Alfieri
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner San Martino Alfieri Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw San Martino Alfieri
