"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Computers and Internet Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Computers and Internet
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Computers and Internet May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Computers and Internet
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Computers and Internet Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Computers and Internet
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Computers and Internet Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Computers and Internet
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Computers and Internet Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Computers and Internet
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Computers and Internet The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Computers and Internet
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 Computers and Internet Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Computers and Internet
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Computers and Internet There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Computers and Internet
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Computers and Internet 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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Computers and Internet
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Computers and Internet Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Computers and Internet
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Computers and Internet Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
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