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-- Oliver Herford "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Orvieto "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Orvieto Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Orvieto
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Orvieto A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Orvieto
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Orvieto Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Orvieto
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Orvieto "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Orvieto
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Orvieto Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Orvieto
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Orvieto I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Orvieto
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Orvieto The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Orvieto
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Orvieto "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Orvieto
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Orvieto A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Orvieto
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Orvieto Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Orvieto
