"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Cagliari People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Cagliari
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Cagliari They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "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) Cagliari
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Cagliari Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Cagliari
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Cagliari I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Cagliari
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Cagliari I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Cagliari
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Cagliari 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 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Cagliari
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Cagliari The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Cagliari
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Cagliari "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Cagliari
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "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 "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Cagliari There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Cagliari
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Cagliari It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Cagliari
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Cagliari Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Cagliari
