"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Castellina in Chianti Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Castellina in Chianti
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Castellina in Chianti May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Castellina in Chianti
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Castellina in Chianti There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a 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 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Castellina in Chianti
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton 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 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Castellina in Chianti "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Castellina in Chianti
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Castellina in Chianti "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Castellina in Chianti
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Castellina in Chianti Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Castellina in Chianti
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Castellina in Chianti Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Castellina in Chianti
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Castellina in Chianti Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Castellina in Chianti
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Castellina in Chianti The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Castellina in Chianti
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Castellina in Chianti The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 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 Castellina in Chianti
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Castellina in Chianti "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun 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. Castellina in Chianti
