"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Mazzini, Giuseppe We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Mazzini, Giuseppe
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Mazzini, Giuseppe When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Mazzini, Giuseppe
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Mazzini, Giuseppe A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Mazzini, Giuseppe
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mazzini, Giuseppe There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mazzini, Giuseppe
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Mazzini, Giuseppe If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Mazzini, Giuseppe
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Mazzini, Giuseppe "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Mazzini, Giuseppe
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Mazzini, Giuseppe Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Mazzini, Giuseppe
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Mazzini, Giuseppe There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "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) Mazzini, Giuseppe
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mazzini, Giuseppe A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Mazzini, Giuseppe
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Mazzini, Giuseppe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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' Mazzini, Giuseppe
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Mazzini, Giuseppe There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Mazzini, Giuseppe
