| a cavil is a matter of principle that we have forgotten (Sir Elwyn Jones) |
| a Church that is not persecuted, but enjoys privileges and support from the middle classes, is not the true Church of Christ |
| a concert to save the planet... reminds me of the Titanic |
| a couple is composed of three people where one is always momentarily absent |
| a denial is a piece of information given twice |
| a friend is not someone who wipes your tears; he\'s someone who doesn\'t make you cry - Anonymous |
| a good dictionary is like a mirror: if you know how to use it well, you can find what you already suspected |
| a man doesn\'t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity - Alexander Smith |
| a man gains wisdom only when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance |
| a political campaign costs much more than an honest man can pay - Anonymous |
| a politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country - Texas Guinan |
| a slave has but one master, an ambitious man has as many as there are people useful to his advancement |
| a tragic indicator of the values of our civilization is that there\'s no business like war business - Douglas Mattern |
| a traitor is someone who leaves a party to join another and a convert is someone who leaves this other party to join yours |
| a translation done badly is not a translation |
| adventure is just bad planning |
| all history is contemporary history |
| all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other - H.P. Lovecraft |
| always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else - Margaret Mead |
| amusing yourself almost always means a different way of being bored |
| an American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men - Charles Darwin |
| an era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted - Arthur Miller |
| an optimist is he who thinks that a woman has finished her telephone call merely because she has said \'.....well, be seeing you......\' |
| anarchy doesn\'t mean no rules, it means no rulers - Edward Abbey |
| and to avoid it being stolen... money is entrusted to the banks |
| animal rights come before religion |
| anthropoid apes and baboons don\'t speak because, if they could, human beings would force them to work |
| any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so - Gore Vidal |
| apart from a few men, all animals have a soul |
| as long as there is oil, there will be no peace in the Middle East |
| as soon as you start to speak a foreign language, your facial expressions and hand movements and your body language all change. You are already someone else |
| ask no questions and you will be told no lies - Anonymous |
| asking an entrepreneur not to cheat on his income is like asking a dentist not to cheat on invoices |
| at any given moment you have to run the risk of losing everything so that something works again |
| banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take that power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money - Sir Josiah Stamp |
| be careful what you wish for, it might come true - Joanne Kathleen Rowling |
| be frank and explicit with your lawyer... It will then be his job to make everything confused - Anonymous |
| beauty is in the eye of the beholder - Anonymous |
| blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed - W. C. Bennett |
| blind and unwavering indiscipline at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men - Alfred Jarry |
| boredom is an infirmity for which the remedy is work; pleasure is only a palliative - Duke of Lewis |
| bureaucracy: a difficulty for every solution - Samuel Herbert |
| can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us? - Eric Schaub |
| capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class - Al Capone |
| coca cola is good for the health... of the US economy |
| cooking is a political act. When we let corporations cook for us we lose control. There\'s an enormous leap of faith to think they are going to have integrity, and that their beef is beef - Mike Pollan |
| corruption is like garbage, it must be removed every day |
| cruelty toward animals is the apprenticeship of cruelty against men |
| culture is an instrument manipulated by school-teachers to produce school-teachers who, in turn, will produce school-teachers |
| do arms factories contribute to combatting unemployment? |
| does the death penalty make any sense to those condemned to die? |
| does the end justify the means? Thanks, Moggi |
| don\'t vote, it only encourages them - Anonymous |
| doping for an athlete is like lying and stealing for a politician. Hard to avoid |
| education is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world - Hannah Arendt |
| enough of drugs in sport: ban testing! - Anonymous |
| everyone smiles in the same language - Anonymous |
| everyone worries about rhinos, but crab louses are in danger of extinction too |
| expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian - Dennis Wholey |
| explaining a word requires other words which in turn must be explained with others, and so on and on without end. Communicating is just an illusion |
| falling in love is the stuff of waiters |
| finishing second means being the first person to lose |
| fools, they don\'t know how much more the half is than the whole |
| football is not just a matter of life and death, it\'s much more important than that - Bill Shankly |
| for it is not the man but the world which has become abnormal |
| for mere death is not the bitterest, but rather when one who wants to die cannot obtain even that boon |
| formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom |
| fortunately Bush has come to the defence of democracy |
| friendship is the childhood of love |
| fur: a skin that changes its animal - Anonymous |
| God, like a comma, can change everything |
| half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them - Martin Henry Fischer |
| high-end journalism can and should bite any hand that tries to feed it - David Simon |
| historians use documents to lie, novelists use their imagination to lie |
| hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss |
| how do you tell if Lyndon Johnson is lying? If he wiggles his ears, that doesn\'t mean he\'s lying. If he raises his eyebrows, that doesn\'t mean he\'s lying. But when he moves his lips, he\'s lying - Robert F. Kennedy |
| how is it that the Mafia \'invests\' by giving away drugs outside schools and publishers don\'t do the same with books? |
| human beings have only two operating modes: irresponsibility and panic - James R. Schlesinger |
| human rights are not respected in Cuba, except in Guantánamo |
| humankind cannot stand very much reality |
| I am the State |
| I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil - Robert F. Kennedy |
| I can\'t change the past, but I can change my memories |
| I dedicated myself to investigating what life is and I don\'t know why nor for what it exists |
| I don\'t want to be alone, I want to be left alone - Audrey Hepburn |
| I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving... we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie the anchor - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve - Charles Lindbergh |
| I hope I never get so old I get religious |
| I love Germany so very much that I preferred two of them |
| I need to be needed |
| I think that Kissinger is the most conspicuous criminal of war at liberty in the world - Gore Vidal |
| I use the parties in the same way as I use taxis: I get in, pay for the ride, get off |
| I was anti-communist when there were communists |
| I wish only not to have desires |
| I would like to see priests getting married, hetero-and homo-sexuals alike |
| ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? |
| ideology is the thought\'s toughest jailer |
| if culture has become merchandise it is little wonder that men too have come to the same end - Anonymous |
| if Israelis don\'t want to stand accused of being Nazis they should simply stop acting like Nazis - Norman G. Finkelstein |
| if it\'s possible to donate organs to save a patient\'s life, why not donate proteins to save those dying of hunger? |
| if one has to refer to any parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied territories - Nelson Mandela |
| if voting changed anything, they would make it illegal - Anonymous |
| if you are a fatalist, what can you do about it? - Ann Edwards-Duff |
| if you are so intelligent, how come you\'ve become rich? |
| if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart - Nelson Mandela |
| if you\'re not part of the solution, you\'re part of the precipitate - Henry J. Tillman |
| if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original - Ken Robinson |
| in certain situations unkind words are best - Anonymous |
| in order to live many years the only thing to be avoided is life |
| in politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman - Margaret Thatcher |
| in relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist - George Carlin |
| instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks - Doug Larson |
| internet colossuses are becoming more and more the exclusive intermediaries between producers and consumers |
| involutional melancholia |
| is it democratic to make people pay taxes in a country where 90 per cent of the population doesn\'t want to pay them? |
| is it the girls on the street that imitate the girls on the television or the other way round? Or is it simply that they go to the same consultants? |
| is there any sense in talking about \'compulsory schooling\'? |
| it doesn\'t much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else - Samuel Rogers |
| it is easier to teach everyone a second language than to build a machine capable of translating |
| it is man in his totality who is conditioned by the labour apparatus to behave productively; when outside the factory, he preserves the same skin and the same head |
| it is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions |
| it is not life that is prolonged, it is old age |
| it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change - Charles Darwin |
| it is sometimes no less eloquent to remain silent |
| it takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance - Thomas Sowell |
| it\'s class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn\'t be - Warren Buffett |
| it\'s not true that rainy days are the worst, they are the only days in which you can walk holdin\' your head high even if you are cryin\' - Jim Morrison |
| it\'s when we forget ourselves that we do things which deserve to be remembered - Anonymous |
| I\'m no pessimist. Recognising evil wherever it exists is, to my mind, a form of optimism |
| justice is nothing more than whatever is advantageous to the stronger |
| language is the mere reduction of thought to its simplest form |
| Las Vegas would take offense at being compared to Wall Street. In Las Vegas, people know what the odds are. On Wall Street they manipulate the odds while you’re playing the game - John Ensign |
| lawyer: an accomplice who does not run any risk |
| let\'s also say that liberty is something rather vague, but there\'s no vagueness about its absence |
| let\'s hope that the normal athletes who won medals at the paralympics did not use drugs |
| life is a hereditary disease |
| life is not big enough to hold all that our desires manage to picture for us |
| life\'s best is not to be sought, but found - Anonymous |
| living is dangerous |
| love is a chastisement. We are punished for not being able to live alone |
| love is entitled to be dishonest and a liar - if it is sincere |
| many of our politicians are of the incompetent kind. The remainder are capable of anything |
| many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness - Pearl S. Buck |
| memories are like wine decanted inside a bottle: they remain clear and the sediment stays on the bottom. No need to shake the bottle |
| men are always sincere. They just change from one kind of sincerity to another, that\'s all |
| Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year |
| Meskimen law: there\'s never enough time to do a good translation, but there\'s alway enough time to redo it |
| money is becoming so important that soon we will be speaking of Kennedy as the first husband of Onassis\'s wife |
| money is the mother\'s milk of politics - Jesse Unruh |
| monogamy is an invention of our Western civilization to give a certain and, I may add, prudent order to society\'s institutions. It has nothing to do with human nature. I challenge anyone to show me a truly monogamous person - Hugh Hefner |
| much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good - Thomas Sowell |
| my optimism is based on the certainty that this civilization is about to collapse. My pessimism lies in all that it is doing to drag us down with it |
| my views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children - Robert F. Kennedy |
| never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world - Margaret Mead |
| never judge a book by its movie - J.W. Eagan |
| no democratic theory calls into question the fact that one of the characteristics of a dictatorship is the monopoly of information |
| no doctor can promise a full recovery, of course every doctor should be able to promise complete care of the patient - Patch Adams |
| no government can be long secure without a formidable opposition - Benjamin Disraeli |
| nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| nobody consults a dictionary before speaking |
| nobody gives me a better hairdo than the wind |
| nobody is so young as to not be able to die today |
| nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion |
| nothing impoverishes so much as greed |
| nothing is impossible for the man who doesn\'t have to do it himself - A.H. Weiler |
| of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife - Anonymous |
| on the subject of values: we keep money in a safe, but dreams...in a drawer |
| one of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine - William Osler |
| only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten - Cree Indian Prophecy |
| only cultured people like learning; ignoramuses prefer to teach |
| only if you are on the road to sunset boulevard can you encounter a rosy morn |
| only someone who does not aspire to virtue is without virtue |
| only the human rights of the legal persons are respected |
| only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly - Robert F. Kennedy |
| only those who want to pay taxes should live in tax havens: so small are they all |
| over the last three decades, we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society. A market economy is a tool a valuable and effective tool for organizing productive activity. But a ‘market society’ is a place where everything is up for sale. It is a way of life where market values govern every sphere of life - Michael Sandel |
| paying taxes is synonymous with being on the Left |
| people believe to be free but they are only free to believe it - Jim Morrison |
| perhaps the best of us are those who are aware that they are worth no more than the nothingness that surrounds them |
| permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws - Mayer Amschel Rothschild |
| pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases - Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| poetry, like bread, is for everyone |
| politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel - John Quinton |
| politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river |
| politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other - Oscar Ameringer |
| pretending to be a fool, Pinochet has shown great intelligence... military |
| prohibition has made nothing but trouble - Al Capone |
| property monopolized or in the possession of the few is a curse to mankind - John Adams |
| reality is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency - Anonymous |
| regret amounts to a strong resolution not to leave any traces the next time |
| religions are the deadliest weapons that Evil has ever devised |
| Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor - Alexander Pope |
| science ain\'t perfect, but that doesn\'t mean you need religion - Anonymous |
| since it\'s publicly known that cigarettes are dangerous, why are they sold? |
| slow and steady wins the race |
| so beautiful was she that they had forbidden her to approach the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| socialism can only arrive by bicycle |
| some believe that genius is hereditary; others don\'t have children |
| some poor countries are proud and would rather solve their problems by themselves but, fortunately, the multinationals can\'t resist sacrificing themselves to help |
| sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it - John von Neumann |
| sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known - Alan Alexander Milne |
| sometimes, in order to be listened to, one must remain silent |
| speaking is translating, listening is translating, reading is translating, writing is translating, thinking is translating. Everyone translates, except some translators |
| taciturn men please women, who believe that they listen |
| television has done much for psychiatry, by spreading information about it as well as contributing to the need for it - Alfred Hitchcock |
| temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you a second chance - Orlando Aloysius Battista |
| the book in which the whole of book learning was written called for help so as not to be gnawed by the mouse. And the mouse had a good laugh |
| the cheerful loser is the winner - Elbert G. Hubbard |
| the Church is becoming, for many, the principal obstacle to faith. They can no longer see in her anything other than Man\'s lust for power played out in a little theatre of men who, under the pretext of administering official Christianity, seem mostly to hinder the true spirit of Christianity |
| the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions - Daniel Webster |
| the day will come when images will replace man who will no longer need to exist, but only to look on. We shall no longer be living beings but merely onlookers |
| the Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn\'t work and then they get elected and prove it - P.J. O\'Rourke |
| the dream of everyone without a brother is that all men be brothers |
| the erotic-publicity minded society in which we live endeavours to organise and develop desire to unprecedented levels, while maintaining satisfaction within the sphere of private life. So that society may function and competition persist, desire must increase, spread out and devour the lives of men |
| the evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal - Charles Darwin |
| the general public has a duty to resist relentlessly, as if it was in an irremissible line of troops on the Piave, against the damage from a perilous disintegration of the general willpower, the collapse of civic awareness with the loss of a sense of what is right - the last and final bastion of what is or is not moral |
| the gratification comes in the doing, not in the results - James Dean |
| the great merit of society is that it makes us appreciate solitude |
| the human being is the Earth that walks |
| the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn - Alvin Toffler |
| the indifference, cowardice and opportunism of their citizens kill off democracies even more than tyrants and dictators |
| the Mafia had a beginning and it will also have an end |
| the mafia is not an exclusively Italian problem nor a matter of backward peasants and underdeveloped situations in Italy\'s south, but a European problem too |
| the man of the third millennium will have Bush\'s culture, Berlusconi\'s honesty and Putin\'s kind heart |
| the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one - J.D. Salinger |
| the more you have the more you want, the less you have the more you give - Anonymous |
| the most evident sign of having found the truth is the inner peace |
| the New Economy is that wonderful concept whereby wealth can be created losing money |
| the offensive words we utter strongly evidence our ignorance |
| the owners of this country know the truth: It\'s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it - George Carlin |
| the person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself - Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| the question of morality has existed for some time, but by now it has become the most important and pressing issue as the renewal of faith in the institutions, the actual governability of the country and the solidity of democracy itself depend on its solution |
| the real University has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind - Robert Pirsig |
| the school as a means of education to me was simply a blank - Charles Darwin |
| the stock market is the place where stupid people are separated from their money - Paul Samuelson |
| the trouble with political jokes is that they get elected to office - Anonymous |
| the two most beautiful words in the English language are: \'check enclosed\' - Dorothy Parker |
| the world is a better place without Saddam. And without Bush......? |
| the world is not a show, but a battlefield |
| the world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished - Jimmy Carter |
| the young delude themselves about their future; the old folks about their past |
| there are adolescences that are triggered off at ninety |
| there are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents - Leon R.Yankwich |
| there are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously - Thomas Sowell |
| there are people so poor that they only have money - Anonymous |
| there are thousands and thousands of people out there living lives of quiet, screaming desperation who work long, hard hours at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like - Nigel Marsh |
| there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword, the other is by debt - John Adams |
| there is an even cleaner form of energy than the sun, more renewable than the wind: it\'s the energy we don\'t consume - Arthur H. Rosenfeld |
| there is no justice in the fact that drugs can be freely had only in prisons |
| there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first - Margaret Thatcher |
| there is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered - Nelson Mandela |
| there is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way - Christopher Morley |
| there is only one way to reduce the consumption of drugs: legalize it - Gary Becker |
| there ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators - Will Rogers |
| they have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| things that are impossible are easier than difficult ones |
| thoughts draw back, objects move forward - Nina Ivanoff |
| to find happiness, one should not seek it |
| to vote is to abdicate |
| to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill |
| today\'s Don Quixotes don\'t fight against but for windmills |
| today\'s political parties are above all power generators of money and clientelism |
| today’s music is directed by bankers and accountants: a trend we must absolutely fight - Brian May |
| too much of what is called \'education\' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality - Thomas Sowell |
| tourism is travelling very far in search of the desire to return home |
| translation is an experience offering and calling for the slowest reading there is, almost a pedestrian crossing over the physical space of the text, with its valleys, plains and mountains |
| travel serves only to endear us more to the place where we were born |
| true achievement is to become the best that you can become - Harold Taylor |
| urbanism is capitalism\'s seizure of the natural and human environment; developing logically into absolute domination, capitalism can and must now remake the totality of space into its own setting |
| virtue: an act contrary to the will - Anonymous |
| war amounts to shedding blood in the search for peace, while peace is a continuation of combat without shedding blood |
| warning: Health Authorities can be harmful |
| we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be - Kurt Vonnegut |
| we believe that we master words, but it is words that master us |
| we can\'t legalize drug trafficking because there is just too much money in it - Hillary Clinton |
| we don\'t know who discovered water, but we\'re certain it wasn\'t a fish - John Culkin |
| we have by now become what we fought against when we were twenty-year-olds |
| we have globalised the circus but not bread |
| we have the best Congress money can buy - Will Rogers |
| we look forward to the day when we can say to our dead men and women just this: we haven\'t surrendered, we haven\'t given up, we haven\'t sold out |
| we must first fight the mafia that is in each of us; we are the mafia |
| what is food to one, is bitter poison to others |
| what we have in common is that we are all different from each other |
| what will be exhausted first - air or oil? |
| when I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function |
| when I see Berlusconi and the other shorty it makes me want to opt out of the human race |
| when there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst - H. Allen Smith |
| when things go wrong don\'t go with them - Elvis Presley |
| when two personalities meet it is as if two chemicals are coming into contact: if there is any reaction at all, both of them undergo some transformation |
| when will UNESCO get around to naming the planet a Patrimony for Humanity? |
| when you’re at peace with yourself, travelling means you’re somewhere else that’s not that far away |
| where it is well with me, there is my country |
| which clones more, genetics or TV? |
| why pay money to have your family tree traced. Go into politics and your opponents will do it for you - Anonymous |
| wine is a grave danger to the (mental) health of someone who does not drink it |
| words take on the value that the listener attributes to them |
| yes to the commerce of culture, no to the culture of commerce |
| you can do extraordinary things when you don\'t claim for the merit - Ted Kennedy |
| you can\'t say that civilization don\'t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way - Will Rogers |
| you don\'t translate what the author wrote, but what he meant to say, this is why computers will never be able to translate |
| you should remember that avarice has always been the enemy of virtue; whosoever aspires too much to gain will rarely earn a good reputation |
| you will find something more in woods than in books. The trees and stone teach you what you never learn from the masters |
| you\'ve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you\'ve got to be a humorist to stay one - Will Rogers |
