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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pinzolo "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pinzolo
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Pinzolo You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "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 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Pinzolo
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Pinzolo If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Pinzolo
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Pinzolo The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Pinzolo
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Pinzolo Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Pinzolo
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Pinzolo We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Pinzolo
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Pinzolo The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Pinzolo
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Pinzolo Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Pinzolo
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) Pinzolo "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Pinzolo
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Pinzolo Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Pinzolo
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Pinzolo Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Pinzolo
