Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Vallelunga Pratameno All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Vallelunga Pratameno
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown May you never leave your marriage alive. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vallelunga Pratameno Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Vallelunga Pratameno
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Vallelunga Pratameno Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Vallelunga Pratameno
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Vallelunga Pratameno blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Vallelunga Pratameno "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Vallelunga Pratameno
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Vallelunga Pratameno There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Vallelunga Pratameno
"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, ignorance, g "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Vallelunga Pratameno Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Vallelunga Pratameno
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Vallelunga Pratameno We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Vallelunga Pratameno
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 Vallelunga Pratameno Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Vallelunga Pratameno
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Vallelunga Pratameno A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Vallelunga Pratameno
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Vallelunga Pratameno "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Vallelunga Pratameno
