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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Gran Canaria Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gran Canaria
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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." Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Gran Canaria Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Gran Canaria
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Gran Canaria "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gran Canaria
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Gran Canaria "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gran Canaria
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Gran Canaria Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Gran Canaria
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Gran Canaria Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gran Canaria
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Gran Canaria The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Gran Canaria
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Gran Canaria I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Gran Canaria
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Gran Canaria "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Gran Canaria
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Gran Canaria 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) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gran Canaria
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Gran Canaria "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gran Canaria
