There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Padua Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Padua
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Padua I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Padua
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Padua If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Padua
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Padua It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Padua
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Padua This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Padua
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Padua Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Padua
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Padua Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 Padua
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 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 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Padua Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Padua
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones 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 >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 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Padua Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Padua
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Padua Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Padua
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Padua You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Padua
