I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Petrosani "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Petrosani
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Petrosani The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Petrosani
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Petrosani 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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Petrosani
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Petrosani I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Petrosani
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce 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 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Petrosani Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Petrosani
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Petrosani It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Petrosani
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Petrosani Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Petrosani
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Petrosani It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Petrosani
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Petrosani With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Petrosani
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Petrosani "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Petrosani
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Petrosani The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Petrosani
