Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Man and wife make one fool. Corvara in Badia When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Corvara in Badia
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Corvara in Badia It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "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 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Corvara in Badia
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 Corvara in Badia The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Corvara in Badia
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Corvara in Badia "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Corvara in Badia
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Corvara in Badia Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Corvara in Badia
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Corvara in Badia Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Corvara in Badia
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Anyway, 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,
ign Corvara in Badia Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Corvara in Badia
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Corvara in Badia There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Corvara in Badia
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Corvara in Badia True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Corvara in Badia
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Corvara in Badia Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Corvara in Badia
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "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) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Corvara in Badia Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
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-- Cass Daley Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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