The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Milot "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Milot
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Milot It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Milot
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Milot blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Milot
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Milot Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Milot
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Milot The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Milot
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Milot My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Milot
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Milot My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Milot
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Milot Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Milot
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Milot "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Milot
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Milot It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Milot
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Milot 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 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Milot
