My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Lucca Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Lucca
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Lucca Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lucca
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Lucca ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Lucca
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Lucca The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Lucca
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Lucca Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Lucca
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Lucca "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Lucca
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Lucca "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Lucca
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Lucca "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick 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 Lucca
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Lucca Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Lucca
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Lucca Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Lucca
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "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) Lucca Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "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) Lucca
