You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Certaldo I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Certaldo
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Certaldo 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, A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Certaldo
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Certaldo "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Certaldo
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Certaldo Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Certaldo
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Certaldo Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Certaldo
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Certaldo 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 really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Certaldo
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Certaldo The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Certaldo
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Certaldo Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Certaldo
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Certaldo "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Certaldo
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Certaldo 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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Certaldo
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Certaldo Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Certaldo
