"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Pontevedra Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Pontevedra
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Pontevedra Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Pontevedra
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Pontevedra I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Pontevedra
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Pontevedra Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Pontevedra
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pontevedra "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Pontevedra
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Pontevedra A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Pontevedra
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Pontevedra Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Pontevedra
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Pontevedra Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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"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) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 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 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Pontevedra "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Pontevedra
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Pontevedra "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Pontevedra
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Pontevedra He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Pontevedra
