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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Livorno Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Livorno
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Livorno Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Livorno
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Livorno Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Livorno
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Livorno Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Livorno
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "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) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Livorno Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Livorno
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Livorno The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Livorno
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Livorno "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Livorno
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Livorno 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Livorno
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Livorno "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Livorno
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Livorno God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Livorno
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Livorno "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Livorno
