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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Chianciano Terme "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) 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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Chianciano Terme
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Chianciano Terme My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Chianciano Terme
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Chianciano Terme The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Chianciano Terme
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Chianciano Terme Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Chianciano Terme
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Chianciano Terme "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Chianciano Terme
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Chianciano Terme "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Chianciano Terme
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Chianciano Terme "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 Chianciano Terme
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Chianciano Terme "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Chianciano Terme
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Chianciano Terme "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Chianciano Terme
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Chianciano Terme We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Chianciano Terme
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Chianciano Terme People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Chianciano Terme
