Sardinia links - A collection of links about the Sardinian language and culture, also poems and photographs.
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Guides and Directories Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Guides and Directories
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 I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Guides and Directories
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Guides and Directories I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki 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 Guides and Directories
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Guides and Directories Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Guides and Directories
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Guides and Directories The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Guides and Directories
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Guides and Directories
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Guides and Directories If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Guides and Directories
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Guides and Directories
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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Guides and Directories The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Guides and Directories
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Guides and Directories The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Guides and Directories blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Guides and Directories
