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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Spigno Monferrato In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Spigno Monferrato
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Spigno Monferrato I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Spigno Monferrato
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Spigno Monferrato When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Spigno Monferrato
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Spigno Monferrato Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "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." Spigno Monferrato
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Spigno Monferrato For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Spigno Monferrato
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Spigno Monferrato Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Spigno Monferrato
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Spigno Monferrato If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Spigno Monferrato
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Spigno Monferrato My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Spigno Monferrato
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Spigno Monferrato "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Spigno Monferrato
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Spigno Monferrato "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Spigno Monferrato
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Spigno Monferrato This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Spigno Monferrato
