Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Santo Stefano Quisquina The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Santo Stefano Quisquina
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Santo Stefano Quisquina Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Santo Stefano Quisquina
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Santo Stefano Quisquina Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Santo Stefano Quisquina
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Santo Stefano Quisquina We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Santo Stefano Quisquina
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Santo Stefano Quisquina Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Santo Stefano Quisquina
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Santo Stefano Quisquina I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Santo Stefano Quisquina
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 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 Santo Stefano Quisquina Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Santo Stefano Quisquina
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Santo Stefano Quisquina At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Santo Stefano Quisquina
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Santo Stefano Quisquina The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, 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 Santo Stefano Quisquina
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Santo Stefano Quisquina The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Santo Stefano Quisquina
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Santo Stefano Quisquina We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Santo Stefano Quisquina
