We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Piedimonte Etneo Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Piedimonte Etneo
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Piedimonte Etneo Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Piedimonte Etneo
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Piedimonte Etneo The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 Piedimonte Etneo
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Piedimonte Etneo "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Piedimonte Etneo
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Piedimonte Etneo There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Piedimonte Etneo
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Piedimonte Etneo "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Piedimonte Etneo
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Piedimonte Etneo It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Piedimonte Etneo
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Piedimonte Etneo I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Piedimonte Etneo
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "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) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Piedimonte Etneo First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Piedimonte Etneo
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Piedimonte Etneo Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Piedimonte Etneo
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Piedimonte Etneo "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Piedimonte Etneo
