I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Castelsardo The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Castelsardo
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Castelsardo "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Castelsardo
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Castelsardo You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Castelsardo
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Castelsardo If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Castelsardo
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Castelsardo A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Castelsardo
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Castelsardo "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Castelsardo
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "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 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Castelsardo "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Castelsardo
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Castelsardo Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Castelsardo
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Castelsardo A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Castelsardo
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Castelsardo Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Castelsardo
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Castelsardo "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Castelsardo
