While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "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) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Sant'Alessio Siculo "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Sant'Alessio Siculo
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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 Sant'Alessio Siculo The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Sant'Alessio Siculo
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sant'Alessio Siculo "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Sant'Alessio Siculo
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sant'Alessio Siculo I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Sant'Alessio Siculo
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Sant'Alessio Siculo Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Sant'Alessio Siculo
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Sant'Alessio Siculo That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Sant'Alessio Siculo
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Sant'Alessio Siculo I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Sant'Alessio Siculo
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Sant'Alessio Siculo The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Sant'Alessio Siculo
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Sant'Alessio Siculo Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Sant'Alessio Siculo
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Sant'Alessio Siculo "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Sant'Alessio Siculo
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Sant'Alessio Siculo An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Sant'Alessio Siculo
