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Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dicomano "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Dicomano
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Dicomano A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Dicomano
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Dicomano "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Dicomano
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Dicomano Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Dicomano
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Dicomano Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Dicomano
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Dicomano To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Dicomano
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Dicomano "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Dicomano
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Dicomano "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Dicomano
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Dicomano Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "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) Dicomano
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dicomano There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Dicomano
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Dicomano "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Dicomano
