Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Caltanissetta Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Caltanissetta
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Caltanissetta You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Caltanissetta
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Caltanissetta There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Caltanissetta
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Caltanissetta I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Caltanissetta
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Caltanissetta Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell May you never leave your marriage alive. Caltanissetta
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Caltanissetta The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Caltanissetta
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Caltanissetta Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Caltanissetta
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Caltanissetta This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Caltanissetta
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) 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 Caltanissetta To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Caltanissetta
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Caltanissetta Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara 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 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.
-- Winston Churchill Caltanissetta
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Caltanissetta For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Caltanissetta
