"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Marina di Modica No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Marina di Modica
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marina di Modica God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marina di Modica
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marina di Modica blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Marina di Modica
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marina di Modica "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Marina di Modica
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marina di Modica I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marina di Modica
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Marina di Modica Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marina di Modica
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marina di Modica "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Marina di Modica
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marina di Modica "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marina di Modica
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Marina di Modica The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Marina di Modica
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marina di Modica "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marina di Modica
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Marina di Modica Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marina di Modica
