That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Nuoro The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Nuoro
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Nuoro Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Nuoro
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Nuoro Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Nuoro
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Nuoro When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Nuoro
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Nuoro Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Nuoro
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Nuoro This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Nuoro
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "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) Nuoro "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Nuoro
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Nuoro The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Nuoro
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Nuoro One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Nuoro
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Nuoro Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Nuoro
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Nuoro Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Nuoro
