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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Umbertide "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) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Umbertide
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Umbertide "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Umbertide
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Umbertide You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Umbertide
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Umbertide One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Umbertide
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Umbertide "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Umbertide
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Umbertide Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Umbertide
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Umbertide "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Umbertide
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Umbertide All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Umbertide
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Umbertide In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Umbertide
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Umbertide Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Umbertide
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Umbertide A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Umbertide
