What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Lisbon and the Tagus Valley If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Lisbon and the Tagus Valley One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Lisbon and the Tagus Valley "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Lisbon and the Tagus Valley "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot 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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Lisbon and the Tagus Valley "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Lisbon and the Tagus Valley If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Lisbon and the Tagus Valley There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Lisbon and the Tagus Valley The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lisbon and the Tagus Valley The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Lisbon and the Tagus Valley The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "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) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Lisbon and the Tagus Valley I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Lisbon and the Tagus Valley
