"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Campobello di Mazara blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Campobello di Mazara
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Campobello di Mazara Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Campobello di Mazara
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Campobello di Mazara Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Campobello di Mazara
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Campobello di Mazara Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
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Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Campobello di Mazara "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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Campobello di Mazara
"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) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Campobello di Mazara I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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"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, The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle 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 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Campobello di Mazara It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He who laughs, lasts.
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Campobello di Mazara America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau Campobello di Mazara
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Campobello di Mazara I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Campobello di Mazara
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Campobello di Mazara The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
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blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Campobello di Mazara Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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