There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Grosseto "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Grosseto
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Grosseto An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Grosseto
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Think off-center." (George Carlin) 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 Grosseto The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Grosseto
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Grosseto It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Grosseto
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Grosseto "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Grosseto
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Grosseto Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Grosseto
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Grosseto "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Grosseto
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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Grosseto "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Grosseto
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Grosseto Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Grosseto
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Grosseto I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Grosseto
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Grosseto If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Grosseto
