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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Villabassa When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Villabassa
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Villabassa "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Villabassa
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Villabassa I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Villabassa
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Villabassa The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Villabassa
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Villabassa "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) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Villabassa
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Villabassa Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Villabassa
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Villabassa Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Villabassa
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Villabassa Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making 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 Villabassa
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Villabassa 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 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Villabassa
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Villabassa This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Villabassa
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Villabassa "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Villabassa
