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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Quarrata We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Quarrata
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Quarrata 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Quarrata
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Quarrata Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Quarrata
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Quarrata The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Quarrata
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 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Quarrata See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Quarrata
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Quarrata Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Quarrata
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Quarrata Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Quarrata
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Quarrata A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Quarrata
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Quarrata Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Quarrata
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Quarrata To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quarrata
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Quarrata I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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