"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Montespertoli "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Montespertoli "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Montespertoli
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Montespertoli Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Montespertoli
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Montespertoli "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Montespertoli
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Montespertoli "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Montespertoli
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Montespertoli You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Montespertoli
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Montespertoli In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Montespertoli
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Montespertoli Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Montespertoli
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Montespertoli Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "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 Montespertoli
"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) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Montespertoli Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Montespertoli
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Montespertoli Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Montespertoli
