In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana By Region "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) By Region
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "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, "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber By Region If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings By Region
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "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) 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews By Region "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein By Region
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland By Region A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal By Region
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 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region 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) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow By Region
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. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks By Region What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington By Region
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland By Region "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi By Region
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler By Region
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By Region "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland By Region
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski By Region "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) By Region
