Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Gioiosa Marea In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Gioiosa Marea
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Gioiosa Marea Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gioiosa Marea
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Gioiosa Marea "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Gioiosa Marea
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Gioiosa Marea Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gioiosa Marea
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Gioiosa Marea "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "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) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Gioiosa Marea
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Gioiosa Marea The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "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) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Gioiosa Marea
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Gioiosa Marea One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Gioiosa Marea
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Gioiosa Marea Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Gioiosa Marea
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Gioiosa Marea Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Gioiosa Marea
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Gioiosa Marea "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Gioiosa Marea
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Gioiosa Marea Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Gioiosa Marea
