When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Foreign I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Foreign
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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Foreign There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Foreign
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Foreign If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Foreign
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Man and wife make one fool. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Foreign They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Foreign
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "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' Foreign Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Foreign
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Foreign "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Foreign
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foreign Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Foreign
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Foreign Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Foreign
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Foreign The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Foreign
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Foreign My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Foreign
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Foreign If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Foreign
