If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Portoferraio Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Portoferraio
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Portoferraio Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Portoferraio
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Portoferraio The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Portoferraio
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Portoferraio "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Portoferraio
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Portoferraio "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Portoferraio
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Portoferraio I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Portoferraio
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Portoferraio "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Portoferraio
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Portoferraio Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes 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 Portoferraio
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Portoferraio In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Portoferraio
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Portoferraio We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Portoferraio
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Portoferraio 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 trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Portoferraio
