Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Lega Nord - Northern League For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Lega Nord - Northern League
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Lega Nord - Northern League His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Lega Nord - Northern League
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "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) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Lega Nord - Northern League Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Lega Nord - Northern League
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Lega Nord - Northern League My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Lega Nord - Northern League
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Lega Nord - Northern League The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lega Nord - Northern League
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lega Nord - Northern League It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Lega Nord - Northern League
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Lega Nord - Northern League The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lega Nord - Northern League
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Lega Nord - Northern League Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Lega Nord - Northern League
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Lega Nord - Northern League We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Lega Nord - Northern League
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Lega Nord - Northern League Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Lega Nord - Northern League
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac 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 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Lega Nord - Northern League Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Lega Nord - Northern League
