This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Campitello di Fassa 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 "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) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Campitello di Fassa
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Campitello di Fassa People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Campitello di Fassa When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Campitello di Fassa
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Campitello di Fassa I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Campitello di Fassa
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Campitello di Fassa If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Campitello di Fassa
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Campitello di Fassa Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) 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 Campitello di Fassa
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Campitello di Fassa "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Campitello di Fassa
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Campitello di Fassa 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, I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Campitello di Fassa
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Campitello di Fassa Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Campitello di Fassa
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Campitello di Fassa Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Campitello di Fassa
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Campitello di Fassa To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Campitello di Fassa
