Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "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) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Fondachello A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Fondachello
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Fondachello Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Fondachello
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Man and wife make one fool. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Fondachello A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Fondachello
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Fondachello A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Fondachello
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Fondachello There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Fondachello
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Fondachello After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Fondachello
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fondachello The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe 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 Fondachello
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fondachello After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Fondachello
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "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 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fondachello When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Fondachello
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Fondachello It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Fondachello
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 Fondachello Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Fondachello
