Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Torbole sul Garda Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Torbole sul Garda
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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Torbole sul Garda Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Torbole sul Garda
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 Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Torbole sul Garda When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man and wife make one fool. Torbole sul Garda
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Torbole sul Garda Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Torbole sul Garda
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Torbole sul Garda Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Torbole sul Garda
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "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) Torbole sul Garda Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Torbole sul Garda
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Torbole sul Garda I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Torbole sul Garda
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Torbole sul Garda In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Torbole sul Garda
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "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) Torbole sul Garda "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Torbole sul Garda
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Torbole sul Garda One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Torbole sul Garda
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Torbole sul Garda The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Torbole sul Garda
