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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Asciano Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Asciano
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "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) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Asciano Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Asciano
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Asciano Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Asciano
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Man and wife make one fool. Asciano A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Asciano
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Asciano 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Asciano
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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asciano "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Asciano
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Asciano The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Asciano
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Asciano "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) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Asciano
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Asciano Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Asciano
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Asciano When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Asciano
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Asciano "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Asciano
