Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Pisa Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Pisa
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Pisa Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Pisa
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Pisa "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Pisa
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Pisa Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Pisa
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Pisa "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Pisa
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Pisa Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Pisa
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Pisa If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Pisa
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Pisa Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Pisa
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Pisa "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Pisa
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pisa Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Pisa
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Pisa "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Pisa
