Bruno Giussani - New York Times' CyberTimes columnist Bruno Giussani, with hundreds of articles and information in three languages. Switzerland-based.
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Columnists Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Columnists
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Columnists Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Columnists
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Columnists A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Columnists
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Columnists Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Columnists
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Columnists Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Columnists
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Columnists Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Columnists
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Columnists We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Columnists
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Columnists Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Columnists
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Columnists What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Columnists
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Columnists "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Columnists
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Columnists "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Columnists
