There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Fontane Bianche An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Fontane Bianche
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Fontane Bianche I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Fontane Bianche
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Fontane Bianche "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Fontane Bianche
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Fontane Bianche Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Fontane Bianche
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Fontane Bianche "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Fontane Bianche
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Fontane Bianche "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Fontane Bianche
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Fontane Bianche The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fontane Bianche
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Fontane Bianche God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Fontane Bianche
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Fontane Bianche My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Fontane Bianche
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Fontane Bianche We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Fontane Bianche
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "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) 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 Fontane Bianche The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Fontane Bianche
