"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Palermo "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Palermo
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Palermo The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 Palermo
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Palermo 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 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Palermo
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Palermo To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Palermo
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Palermo "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Palermo
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Palermo 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Palermo
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery 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 Palermo "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Palermo
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Palermo "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Palermo
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Palermo You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Palermo
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Palermo It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Palermo
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand My other wife is beautiful. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Palermo Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Palermo
