I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Verona People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Verona
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Verona No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Verona
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Verona Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Verona
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Verona Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Verona
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Verona "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Verona
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Verona Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Verona
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Verona 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Verona
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Verona When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Verona
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Verona Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Verona
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Verona The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Verona
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Verona It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Verona
