"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Torremolinos "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Torremolinos
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain 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 Torremolinos What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Torremolinos
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Torremolinos "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) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Torremolinos
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Torremolinos "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Torremolinos
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "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 Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Torremolinos Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Torremolinos
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Torremolinos Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Torremolinos
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Torremolinos The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "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 don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Torremolinos
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Torremolinos "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Torremolinos
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins 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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Torremolinos The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Torremolinos
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Torremolinos As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Torremolinos
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Torremolinos It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Torremolinos
