The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Lucca Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Lucca Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Lucca
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Lucca Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Lucca
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Lucca "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Lucca
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Lucca Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Lucca
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Lucca Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Lucca
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Lucca Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "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) Lucca
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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 Lucca Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Lucca
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Lucca blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Lucca
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lucca Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Lucca
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Lucca The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Lucca
