When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Biella "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Biella
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Biella 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 God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Biella
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Biella "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Biella
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biella I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Biella
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Biella Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Biella
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Biella If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biella
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Biella Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Biella
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Biella Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Biella
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Biella "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Biella
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Biella Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Biella
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Biella It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) 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 Biella
