Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Crocetta del Montello Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Crocetta del Montello
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Crocetta del Montello The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Crocetta del Montello
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Crocetta del Montello The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Crocetta del Montello
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Crocetta del Montello "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Crocetta del Montello
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "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) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Crocetta del Montello "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crocetta del Montello
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Crocetta del Montello I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Crocetta del Montello
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Crocetta del Montello "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Crocetta del Montello
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Crocetta del Montello During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Crocetta del Montello
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 My other wife is beautiful. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Crocetta del Montello He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "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) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Crocetta del Montello
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Crocetta del Montello Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Crocetta del Montello
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Crocetta del Montello Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Crocetta del Montello
