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Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Otranto A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Otranto
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Otranto Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Otranto
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Otranto I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Otranto
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Otranto Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Otranto
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Otranto Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Otranto
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Otranto The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Otranto
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Otranto "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Otranto
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Otranto Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Otranto
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Otranto There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Otranto
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Otranto Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Otranto
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Otranto The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Otranto
