"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Caltagirone There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Caltagirone
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Caltagirone "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Caltagirone
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Caltagirone When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Caltagirone
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Caltagirone If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Caltagirone
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Caltagirone Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Caltagirone
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Caltagirone I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Caltagirone
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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Caltagirone The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Caltagirone
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 If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Caltagirone 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 "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) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Caltagirone
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Caltagirone The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Caltagirone
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Caltagirone Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Caltagirone
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Caltagirone your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Caltagirone
