The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Passignano sul Trasimeno Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Passignano sul Trasimeno
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Passignano sul Trasimeno Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Passignano sul Trasimeno
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Passignano sul Trasimeno A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Passignano sul Trasimeno
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Passignano sul Trasimeno "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Passignano sul Trasimeno
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Passignano sul Trasimeno "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) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Passignano sul Trasimeno
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Passignano sul Trasimeno A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Passignano sul Trasimeno
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Passignano sul Trasimeno Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Passignano sul Trasimeno
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Passignano sul Trasimeno The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Passignano sul Trasimeno
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Passignano sul Trasimeno The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Passignano sul Trasimeno
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Passignano sul Trasimeno How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Passignano sul Trasimeno
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Passignano sul Trasimeno "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Passignano sul Trasimeno
