My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "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 Dimaro "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Dimaro
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Dimaro "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Dimaro
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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Dimaro I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Dimaro
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Dimaro Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Dimaro
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Dimaro As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dimaro
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Dimaro "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Dimaro
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Dimaro A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Dimaro
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dimaro Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Dimaro
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dimaro Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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) Dimaro
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Dimaro Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Dimaro
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Dimaro If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Dimaro
