"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Pulsano We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pulsano
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Pulsano Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Pulsano
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Pulsano Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 Pulsano
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Pulsano 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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Pulsano
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Pulsano If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Pulsano
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Pulsano Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Pulsano
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Pulsano Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Pulsano
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Pulsano Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Pulsano
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Pulsano It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Pulsano
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Pulsano The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Pulsano
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Pulsano "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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