"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." Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "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) Marina di Ragusa "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marina di Ragusa
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marina di Ragusa "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Marina di Ragusa
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Marina di Ragusa I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marina di Ragusa
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marina di Ragusa Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Marina di Ragusa
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Marina di Ragusa Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marina di Ragusa
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Marina di Ragusa Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Marina di Ragusa
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marina di Ragusa "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marina di Ragusa
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marina di Ragusa Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Marina di Ragusa
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marina di Ragusa "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marina di Ragusa
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous 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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marina di Ragusa When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Marina di Ragusa
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Marina di Ragusa "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marina di Ragusa
