Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Lampedusa Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lampedusa
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Lampedusa Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Lampedusa
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Lampedusa "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Lampedusa
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Lampedusa Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Lampedusa
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Lampedusa I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lampedusa
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Lampedusa I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Lampedusa
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Lampedusa Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Lampedusa
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "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) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Lampedusa 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 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Lampedusa
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Lampedusa "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Lampedusa
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "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) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Lampedusa I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Lampedusa
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Lampedusa 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 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lampedusa
