You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Alessandria The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Alessandria
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Alessandria Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Alessandria
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Alessandria Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alessandria
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Alessandria It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Alessandria
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams 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 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Alessandria Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Alessandria
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Alessandria "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Alessandria
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Alessandria If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Alessandria
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Alessandria 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 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Alessandria
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Alessandria "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Alessandria
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Alessandria "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) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Alessandria
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Alessandria Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Alessandria
