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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Caorle There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Caorle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Caorle I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Caorle
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Caorle 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Caorle
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Caorle Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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) Caorle
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Caorle Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Caorle
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Caorle "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Caorle
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Caorle To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Caorle
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Caorle "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Caorle
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Caorle blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Caorle
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Caorle When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Caorle
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Caorle Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Caorle
