Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Ostuni "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ostuni
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Ostuni It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ostuni
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Ostuni Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Ostuni
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Ostuni Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Ostuni
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Ostuni "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Ostuni
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ostuni Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Ostuni
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Ostuni Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Ostuni
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Ostuni "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Ostuni
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ostuni I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ostuni
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Ostuni Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Ostuni
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Ostuni "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Ostuni
