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"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Avigliano Umbro Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Avigliano Umbro
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 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Avigliano Umbro Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Avigliano Umbro Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Avigliano Umbro
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Avigliano Umbro There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Avigliano Umbro
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Avigliano Umbro The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Avigliano Umbro
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Avigliano Umbro Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Avigliano Umbro
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Avigliano Umbro When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Avigliano Umbro
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Avigliano Umbro I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Avigliano Umbro
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avigliano Umbro Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Avigliano Umbro
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Avigliano Umbro The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Avigliano Umbro
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avigliano Umbro The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Avigliano Umbro
