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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Mason Vicentino Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton Mason Vicentino
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Mason Vicentino "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Mason Vicentino
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Mason Vicentino 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Mason Vicentino
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Mason Vicentino Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Mason Vicentino
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Mason Vicentino Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Mason Vicentino
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Mason Vicentino A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Mason Vicentino
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Mason Vicentino What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Mason Vicentino
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "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 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Mason Vicentino "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Mason Vicentino
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 Mason Vicentino I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) 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 Mason Vicentino
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mason Vicentino "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Mason Vicentino "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Mason Vicentino
