"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Giardini Naxos No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Giardini Naxos
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Giardini Naxos "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Giardini Naxos
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Giardini Naxos The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Giardini Naxos
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "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) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Giardini Naxos The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Giardini Naxos
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon 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 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Giardini Naxos How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Giardini Naxos
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Giardini Naxos Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Giardini Naxos
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 Giardini Naxos "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Giardini Naxos
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Giardini Naxos Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Giardini Naxos
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere 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 Giardini Naxos I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison 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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Giardini Naxos
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giardini Naxos The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Giardini Naxos
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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Giardini Naxos To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Giardini Naxos
