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-- Ambrose Bierce "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Pisa "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Pisa
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Pisa Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Pisa
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Pisa If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Pisa
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Pisa Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Pisa
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Pisa "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Pisa
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Pisa Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Pisa
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Pisa Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Pisa
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Pisa Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Pisa
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Pisa It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Pisa
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pisa With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Pisa
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Pisa Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Pisa
