"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Motta Sant'Anastasia Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Motta Sant'Anastasia
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Motta Sant'Anastasia "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Motta Sant'Anastasia
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Motta Sant'Anastasia I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Motta Sant'Anastasia
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Motta Sant'Anastasia Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Motta Sant'Anastasia
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Motta Sant'Anastasia "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Motta Sant'Anastasia
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Motta Sant'Anastasia Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Motta Sant'Anastasia
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Motta Sant'Anastasia At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Motta Sant'Anastasia
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Motta Sant'Anastasia "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Motta Sant'Anastasia
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Motta Sant'Anastasia Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Motta Sant'Anastasia
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Motta Sant'Anastasia Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Motta Sant'Anastasia
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Motta Sant'Anastasia He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Motta Sant'Anastasia
