Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Castelrotto "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Castelrotto
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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Castelrotto "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Castelrotto
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Castelrotto In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Castelrotto
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Castelrotto Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Castelrotto
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Castelrotto I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Castelrotto
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Castelrotto Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Castelrotto
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Castelrotto Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Castelrotto
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Castelrotto The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Castelrotto
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Castelrotto Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Castelrotto
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Castelrotto The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Castelrotto
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "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) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Castelrotto When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Castelrotto
