A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Prato "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Prato
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Prato "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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Prato
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Prato All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Prato
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Prato Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Prato
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Prato One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Prato
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Prato I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Prato
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Prato "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Prato
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Prato If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Prato "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) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Prato
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Prato 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Prato
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Prato Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Prato
