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He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Brucoli "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Brucoli
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Brucoli If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brucoli
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Brucoli When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Brucoli
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Brucoli While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Brucoli
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Brucoli We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Brucoli
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Brucoli The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Brucoli
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Brucoli Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Brucoli
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Brucoli "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Brucoli
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Brucoli blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Brucoli
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Brucoli Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Brucoli
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Brucoli "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Brucoli
