Comiso American High School - An alumni page for this former school. It is intended to help Comiso students find each other.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Education In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Education
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Education Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 Education
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Education I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Education
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Education 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 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Education
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Education "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Education
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Education
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Education 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Education I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Education
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Education "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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