Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Pistoia English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Pistoia
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Pistoia I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Pistoia
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Pistoia Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Pistoia
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Pistoia "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Pistoia
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Pistoia It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pistoia
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Pistoia "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Pistoia
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Pistoia Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Pistoia
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Pistoia Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Pistoia
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Pistoia "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Pistoia
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 "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) Pistoia Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Pistoia
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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Pistoia "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Pistoia
