If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Garfagnana A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Garfagnana
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Garfagnana There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Garfagnana
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Garfagnana "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Garfagnana
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Garfagnana "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Garfagnana
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Garfagnana "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Garfagnana
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Garfagnana Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Garfagnana
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Garfagnana "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Garfagnana
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Garfagnana Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Garfagnana
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Garfagnana "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Garfagnana
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Garfagnana If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Garfagnana
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Garfagnana "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Garfagnana
