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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Albaredo d'Adige When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Albaredo d'Adige
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Albaredo d'Adige We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Albaredo d'Adige
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Albaredo d'Adige Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Albaredo d'Adige
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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Albaredo d'Adige He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) May you never leave your marriage alive. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Albaredo d'Adige Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Albaredo d'Adige
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Albaredo d'Adige I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Albaredo d'Adige
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Albaredo d'Adige Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Albaredo d'Adige
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Albaredo d'Adige "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Albaredo d'Adige
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Albaredo d'Adige It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Albaredo d'Adige
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Albaredo d'Adige Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Albaredo d'Adige
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Albaredo d'Adige 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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Albaredo d'Adige
