We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Arezzo "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Arezzo
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Arezzo "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Arezzo
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Arezzo Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arezzo
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arezzo A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Arezzo
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Arezzo I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Arezzo
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arezzo "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Arezzo
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arezzo "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arezzo
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Arezzo A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Arezzo
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Arezzo Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Arezzo
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Arezzo If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Arezzo
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Arezzo Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Arezzo
