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 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Venice Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Venice
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Venice The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Venice
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Venice The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Venice
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Venice All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Venice
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "... 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) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Venice 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Venice
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Venice "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Venice
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Venice Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Venice
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, 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 Venice Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "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) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Venice
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Venice You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Venice
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Venice Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Venice
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Venice "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Venice
