A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Montalcino Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson May you never leave your marriage alive. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Montalcino
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Montalcino To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Montalcino
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Montalcino >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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
ha Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Montalcino
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Montalcino "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Montalcino
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "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) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Montalcino Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Montalcino
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Montalcino "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Montalcino
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Montalcino "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Montalcino
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Montalcino I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Montalcino
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Montalcino Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Montalcino
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Montalcino One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Montalcino
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Montalcino It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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" First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Montalcino
