Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Pontedera You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Pontedera
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Pontedera Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Pontedera
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Pontedera Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Pontedera
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Pontedera The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Pontedera
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Pontedera 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 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Pontedera
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Pontedera Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Pontedera
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Pontedera The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Pontedera
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Pontedera "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Pontedera
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Pontedera Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Pontedera
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Pontedera Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Pontedera
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Pontedera "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Pontedera
