God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton San Vigilio di Marebbe If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST San Vigilio di Marebbe
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. San Vigilio di Marebbe Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec San Vigilio di Marebbe
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince San Vigilio di Marebbe Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill San Vigilio di Marebbe
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe San Vigilio di Marebbe Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) San Vigilio di Marebbe
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) San Vigilio di Marebbe Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche San Vigilio di Marebbe
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison San Vigilio di Marebbe "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake San Vigilio di Marebbe
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky San Vigilio di Marebbe "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce San Vigilio di Marebbe
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "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) San Vigilio di Marebbe "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) San Vigilio di Marebbe
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 San Vigilio di Marebbe Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken San Vigilio di Marebbe
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner San Vigilio di Marebbe All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln San Vigilio di Marebbe
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "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) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche San Vigilio di Marebbe Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon San Vigilio di Marebbe
