"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Rovigo "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Rovigo
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Rovigo I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Rovigo
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Rovigo Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Rovigo
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Rovigo "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Rovigo
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Rovigo Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rovigo
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Rovigo There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Rovigo
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Rovigo A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Rovigo
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Rovigo In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Rovigo
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "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) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Rovigo "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Rovigo
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Rovigo "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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Rovigo
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Rovigo 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 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Rovigo
