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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Selva Gardena A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Selva Gardena
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) Selva Gardena "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Selva Gardena
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Selva Gardena Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Selva Gardena
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Selva Gardena "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Selva Gardena
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Selva Gardena I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Selva Gardena
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Selva Gardena If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Selva Gardena
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Selva Gardena 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Selva Gardena
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Selva Gardena "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Selva Gardena
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Selva Gardena The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Selva Gardena
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Selva Gardena "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Selva Gardena
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Selva Gardena I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Selva Gardena
