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Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Piombino Dese Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Piombino Dese
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Piombino Dese A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Piombino Dese
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Piombino Dese Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Piombino Dese
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Piombino Dese Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Piombino Dese
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Piombino Dese Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Piombino Dese
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Man and wife make one fool. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Piombino Dese Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Piombino Dese
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Piombino Dese "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Piombino Dese
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Piombino Dese Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Piombino Dese
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Piombino Dese The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Piombino Dese
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Piombino Dese "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Piombino Dese
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Piombino Dese I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Piombino Dese
