quotes about italians

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic



Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. ~George Bernard Shaw



Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso



The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset, Historical Reason



What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ~Agnes Repplier



Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare



Patch grief with proverbs. ~William Shakespeare



When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro



Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies



Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. ~Tony Hendra, "Deteriorata" (Thanks Tom) Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. ~Maimonides



Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield



A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb



Colorful candles burning bright, each lit on eight very special nights. ~Author Unknown



A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. ~Lord Halifax



Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. ~William Shakespeare



The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. ~William James



Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~Gloria Steinem, New York Times, 26 August 1971



Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? ~Elayne Boosler