"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Alentejo All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Alentejo
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Alentejo A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Alentejo
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Alentejo Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Alentejo
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Alentejo 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Alentejo
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Alentejo When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Alentejo
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and 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' A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Alentejo All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Alentejo
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Alentejo True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Alentejo
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Alentejo "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Alentejo
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Alentejo If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Alentejo
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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 "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) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Alentejo To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Alentejo
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Alentejo The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Alentejo
