"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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Chiaramonte Gulfi Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Chiaramonte Gulfi
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Chiaramonte Gulfi There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Chiaramonte Gulfi "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Chiaramonte Gulfi Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Chiaramonte Gulfi
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Chiaramonte Gulfi Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Chiaramonte Gulfi
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "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) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Chiaramonte Gulfi If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Chiaramonte Gulfi
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Chiaramonte Gulfi "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Chiaramonte Gulfi
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Chiaramonte Gulfi "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Chiaramonte Gulfi
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Chiaramonte Gulfi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 Chiaramonte Gulfi
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Chiaramonte Gulfi I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Chiaramonte Gulfi
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Chiaramonte Gulfi After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Chiaramonte Gulfi
