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Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Costacciaro 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 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Costacciaro
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Costacciaro The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Costacciaro
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Costacciaro "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Costacciaro
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Costacciaro The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Costacciaro Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Costacciaro
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Costacciaro I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Costacciaro
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Costacciaro The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Costacciaro "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Costacciaro
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Costacciaro As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Costacciaro
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Costacciaro A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Costacciaro
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Costacciaro 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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Costacciaro
