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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Pontremoli Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Pontremoli
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Pontremoli If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pontremoli
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Pontremoli "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Pontremoli
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Pontremoli Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Pontremoli
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pontremoli Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Pontremoli
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Pontremoli "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Pontremoli
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Pontremoli "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Pontremoli
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Pontremoli "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Pontremoli
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Pontremoli Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Pontremoli
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Pontremoli If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Pontremoli
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Pontremoli Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Pontremoli
