Autogoverno Veneto - Statement concerning the claimed right to self-government by the Venet populace.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Politics Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Politics
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Politics It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Politics
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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Politics There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Politics
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Politics Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "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) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Politics
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Politics The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Politics
"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) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Politics I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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) Politics Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Politics
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Politics A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Politics
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Politics A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Politics
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "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) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Politics I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Politics
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Politics When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Politics
