"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Collesano Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Collesano
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Collesano "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) 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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Collesano
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Collesano Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Collesano
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Collesano When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Collesano
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Collesano The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Collesano
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Collesano Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Collesano
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Collesano I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Collesano
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) 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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Collesano We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Collesano
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Collesano "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Collesano
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Collesano This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Collesano
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Collesano I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Collesano
