You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Valdarno A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Valdarno
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Valdarno Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Valdarno
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Valdarno "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Valdarno
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Valdarno If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Valdarno
"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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Valdarno "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Valdarno
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Valdarno Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Valdarno
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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Valdarno There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Valdarno
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Valdarno "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Valdarno
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Valdarno If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Valdarno
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Valdarno Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Valdarno
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Valdarno "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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 Valdarno
