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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Bassano del Grappa He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Bassano del Grappa
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bassano del Grappa Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bassano del Grappa
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Bassano del Grappa I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Bassano del Grappa
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Bassano del Grappa Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "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) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bassano del Grappa
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bassano del Grappa Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Bassano del Grappa
"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) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Bassano del Grappa The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Bassano del Grappa
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Bassano del Grappa Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Bassano del Grappa
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Bassano del Grappa The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Bassano del Grappa
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bassano del Grappa A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Bassano del Grappa
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per 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 Bassano del Grappa "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Bassano del Grappa
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bassano del Grappa "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) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Bassano del Grappa
