A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Caltanissetta Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Caltanissetta
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Caltanissetta A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Caltanissetta
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Caltanissetta Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Caltanissetta
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Caltanissetta The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Caltanissetta One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Caltanissetta
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Caltanissetta Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Caltanissetta
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Caltanissetta "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) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Caltanissetta
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Caltanissetta Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Caltanissetta
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Caltanissetta The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Caltanissetta
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Caltanissetta He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Caltanissetta
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Caltanissetta The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
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