If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Martina Franca What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Martina Franca
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "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) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martina Franca Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Martina Franca
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Martina Franca See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Martina Franca
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 Martina Franca "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Martina Franca
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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 Martina Franca "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Martina Franca
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Martina Franca We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Martina Franca
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Martina Franca Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Martina Franca
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Martina Franca Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Martina Franca
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Martina Franca Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Martina Franca
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Martina Franca If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Martina Franca
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Martina Franca A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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 Martina Franca
