We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Nicolosi "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Nicolosi
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nicolosi Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Nicolosi
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Nicolosi I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Nicolosi
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Nicolosi Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Nicolosi
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Nicolosi "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Nicolosi
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Nicolosi Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Nicolosi
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Nicolosi Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Nicolosi
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Nicolosi Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Nicolosi
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nicolosi "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Nicolosi
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Nicolosi It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Nicolosi
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Nicolosi In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 Nicolosi
