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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Montepulciano "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Montepulciano
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Montepulciano The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Montepulciano
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Montepulciano Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Montepulciano
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Montepulciano Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Montepulciano
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Montepulciano We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Montepulciano
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Montepulciano There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Montepulciano
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Montepulciano "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Montepulciano
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) 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 Montepulciano "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Montepulciano
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Montepulciano blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Montepulciano
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Montepulciano My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 Montepulciano
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Montepulciano I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Montepulciano
