Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Porto Santo Stefano Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Porto Santo Stefano
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Porto Santo Stefano Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Porto Santo Stefano
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Porto Santo Stefano Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Porto Santo Stefano
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Porto Santo Stefano "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Porto Santo Stefano
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "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-) Porto Santo Stefano Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Porto Santo Stefano
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Porto Santo Stefano Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Porto Santo Stefano
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Porto Santo Stefano We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Porto Santo Stefano
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Porto Santo Stefano I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Porto Santo Stefano
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Porto Santo Stefano If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Porto Santo Stefano
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Porto Santo Stefano Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Porto Santo Stefano
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Porto Santo Stefano 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Porto Santo Stefano
