Guspini on Line - Environment, archaeology, history, traditions, and links.
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Guspini "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Guspini
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Guspini "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Guspini
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 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Guspini Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "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) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Guspini
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Guspini With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Guspini
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guspini "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guspini
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Guspini Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Guspini
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Guspini Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Guspini
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Guspini Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guspini
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Guspini "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Guspini
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Guspini The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Guspini
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Guspini To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Guspini