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Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Impruneta Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 Impruneta
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" What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Impruneta Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Impruneta
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Impruneta The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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) Impruneta
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Impruneta Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Impruneta
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Impruneta I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Impruneta
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Impruneta Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Impruneta
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Impruneta When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Impruneta
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Impruneta To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Impruneta
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Impruneta I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Impruneta
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Impruneta "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Impruneta
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Impruneta Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "... 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) Impruneta
