If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Perugia Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Perugia
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Perugia You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Perugia
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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Perugia A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Perugia
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Perugia Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Perugia
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Perugia How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Perugia
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Perugia When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Perugia
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller 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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either way.
-- Bertrand Russell You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Perugia Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Perugia
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perugia "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Perugia
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Perugia The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Perugia
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Perugia Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Perugia
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Perugia I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Perugia
