"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Mugello "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Mugello
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Mugello The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Mugello
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 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 Unha "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Mugello I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mugello
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Mugello Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Mugello
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Mugello One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Mugello
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mugello If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Mugello
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Mugello You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mugello
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Mugello Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Mugello
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Mugello Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Mugello
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Mugello Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Mugello
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Mugello Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Mugello
