"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous San Martino di Castrozza A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru San Martino di Castrozza
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST San Martino di Castrozza The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb San Martino di Castrozza
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard San Martino di Castrozza The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) San Martino di Castrozza
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) San Martino di Castrozza "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight San Martino di Castrozza
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn San Martino di Castrozza 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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle San Martino di Castrozza
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton San Martino di Castrozza It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be San Martino di Castrozza
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau San Martino di Castrozza Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov San Martino di Castrozza
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 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous San Martino di Castrozza Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry San Martino di Castrozza
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa San Martino di Castrozza "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford San Martino di Castrozza
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. San Martino di Castrozza He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner San Martino di Castrozza
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson San Martino di Castrozza And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg San Martino di Castrozza
