"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Belluno blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Belluno
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 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Belluno No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Belluno
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying 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) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Belluno Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Belluno
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Belluno Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Belluno
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Belluno Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Belluno
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Belluno "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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Belluno
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Belluno blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "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 Belluno
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Belluno When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Belluno
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Belluno 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Belluno
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Belluno Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Belluno
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Belluno "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Belluno
