Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Italian-Speaking Cantons Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Italian-Speaking Cantons
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Italian-Speaking Cantons A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Italian-Speaking Cantons
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Italian-Speaking Cantons There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Italian-Speaking Cantons
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Italian-Speaking Cantons The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Italian-Speaking Cantons
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Italian-Speaking Cantons When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Italian-Speaking Cantons
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Italian-Speaking Cantons Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Italian-Speaking Cantons
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Italian-Speaking Cantons The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Italian-Speaking Cantons
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Italian-Speaking Cantons If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Italian-Speaking Cantons
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones 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,
Italian-Speaking Cantons Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Italian-Speaking Cantons
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Italian-Speaking Cantons This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Italian-Speaking Cantons
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Italian-Speaking Cantons There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Italian-Speaking Cantons
