"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Cerreto Guidi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Cerreto Guidi
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Cerreto Guidi It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Cerreto Guidi
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Cerreto Guidi "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Cerreto Guidi
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Cerreto Guidi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cerreto Guidi
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cerreto Guidi Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Cerreto Guidi
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Cerreto Guidi Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Cerreto Guidi
"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) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Cerreto Guidi "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Cerreto Guidi
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Cerreto Guidi "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Cerreto Guidi
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Cerreto Guidi Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Cerreto Guidi
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Cerreto Guidi Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Cerreto Guidi
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cerreto Guidi "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Cerreto Guidi
