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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Valdoltra Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Valdoltra
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Valdoltra Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan 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 Valdoltra
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Valdoltra A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Valdoltra
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Valdoltra "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Valdoltra
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Valdoltra Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Valdoltra
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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Valdoltra Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Valdoltra
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Valdoltra During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Valdoltra
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Valdoltra If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Valdoltra
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Valdoltra Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Valdoltra
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Valdoltra Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Valdoltra
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Valdoltra "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "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) Valdoltra
