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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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-- Bertrand Russell When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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Uncl Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- St. Augustine Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Cinigiano The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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-- Leonardo da Vinci I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Cinigiano Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- John Murray In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Cinigiano Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Cinigiano
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-- Soren Kierkegaard Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Cinigiano blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Cinigiano
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Cinigiano "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Cinigiano
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Cinigiano The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Cinigiano Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Cinigiano The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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