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A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Piove di Sacco The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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. Piove di Sacco
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Piove di Sacco A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Piove di Sacco
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Piove di Sacco The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Piove di Sacco
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Piove di Sacco Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Piove di Sacco
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Piove di Sacco "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Piove di Sacco
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Piove di Sacco "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Piove di Sacco
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Piove di Sacco "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Piove di Sacco
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Piove di Sacco The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Piove di Sacco
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Piove di Sacco Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Piove di Sacco
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Piove di Sacco "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Piove di Sacco
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Piove di Sacco In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Piove di Sacco
