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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Arzachena The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Arzachena
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arzachena "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arzachena
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Arzachena "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arzachena
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Arzachena Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Arzachena
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Arzachena "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Arzachena
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arzachena We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Arzachena
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Arzachena As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arzachena
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Arzachena "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Arzachena
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Arzachena I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Arzachena
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Arzachena Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arzachena
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Arzachena After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Arzachena
