"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Sciacca Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Sciacca
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Sciacca If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Sciacca
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Sciacca Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Sciacca
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Sciacca Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Sciacca
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 Sciacca In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Sciacca
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Sciacca Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Sciacca
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Sciacca To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Sciacca
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "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 Sciacca Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Sciacca
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Sciacca Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Sciacca
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Sciacca Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Sciacca
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Sciacca A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Sciacca
