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Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Montevarchi blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Montevarchi
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Montevarchi Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Montevarchi
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Montevarchi 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 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Montevarchi
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Montevarchi "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Montevarchi
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Montevarchi Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Montevarchi
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Montevarchi If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Montevarchi
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Montevarchi "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Montevarchi
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Montevarchi Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Montevarchi
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Montevarchi Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Montevarchi
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Montevarchi Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Montevarchi
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Montevarchi Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Montevarchi
