I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Valtiberina To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Valtiberina
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Valtiberina When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Valtiberina
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Valtiberina "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Valtiberina
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 Valtiberina "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Valtiberina
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Valtiberina 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Valtiberina
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Valtiberina "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Valtiberina
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Valtiberina "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Valtiberina
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt 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 Valtiberina In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Valtiberina
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Valtiberina "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Valtiberina
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Valtiberina No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Valtiberina
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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Valtiberina Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Valtiberina
