University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Termini Imerese Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Termini Imerese
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Termini Imerese "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Termini Imerese
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Termini Imerese blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Termini Imerese
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Termini Imerese Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Termini Imerese
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Termini Imerese "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Termini Imerese
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Termini Imerese "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Termini Imerese
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Termini Imerese Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Termini Imerese
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Termini Imerese Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Termini Imerese
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Termini Imerese Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Termini Imerese
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Termini Imerese The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Termini Imerese
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Termini Imerese "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) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "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 Termini Imerese
