"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Acireale Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Acireale
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Acireale Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Acireale
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Acireale "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Acireale
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Acireale Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Acireale
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Acireale "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Acireale
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Acireale If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Acireale
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Acireale What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Acireale
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Acireale Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Acireale
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Acireale Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Acireale
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Acireale A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Acireale
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Acireale "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Acireale
