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"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Monsummano Terme I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Monsummano Terme I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Monsummano Terme
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Monsummano Terme "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Monsummano Terme
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Monsummano Terme Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Monsummano Terme
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Monsummano Terme Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Monsummano Terme
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Monsummano Terme In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Monsummano Terme
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Monsummano Terme The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Monsummano Terme
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Monsummano Terme One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Monsummano Terme
"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') "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Monsummano Terme I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Monsummano Terme
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Monsummano Terme The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Monsummano Terme
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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-- Rory Bremner Monsummano Terme Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Monsummano Terme
