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"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola La Maddalena The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "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) La Maddalena
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show La Maddalena Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken La Maddalena
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) La Maddalena "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford La Maddalena
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton La Maddalena In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker La Maddalena
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents La Maddalena The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) La Maddalena
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George La Maddalena I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara La Maddalena
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 La Maddalena "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous La Maddalena
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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) La Maddalena The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk La Maddalena
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) La Maddalena It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler La Maddalena
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen La Maddalena Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW La Maddalena
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin La Maddalena "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) La Maddalena
