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Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Scordia I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Scordia
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Scordia "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Scordia
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Scordia "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Scordia
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Man and wife make one fool. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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, Scordia "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Scordia
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Scordia "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Scordia
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Scordia Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Scordia
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Scordia "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Scordia
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Scordia A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Scordia
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Scordia 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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Scordia
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Scordia Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Scordia
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Scordia Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Scordia
