I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Trapani Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Trapani
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Trapani Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Trapani
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Trapani "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Trapani
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Trapani Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Trapani
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Trapani A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Trapani
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Trapani The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trapani
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Trapani "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Trapani
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Trapani People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Trapani
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Trapani Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Trapani
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Trapani This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Trapani
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Trapani 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 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trapani
