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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Castelnuovo Garfagnana
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Work is the curse of the drinking class.
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-- French Proverb "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Castelnuovo Garfagnana
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Castelnuovo Garfagnana "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Castelnuovo Garfagnana
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Castelnuovo Garfagnana In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Castelnuovo Garfagnana MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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-- Arthur Godfrey Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Castelnuovo Garfagnana "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Castelnuovo Garfagnana
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Castelnuovo Garfagnana Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Castelnuovo Garfagnana There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Castelnuovo Garfagnana
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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-- Anonymous Castelnuovo Garfagnana
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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