I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Minsk I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Minsk
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Minsk I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Minsk
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Minsk This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Minsk
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Minsk "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Minsk
My other wife is beautiful. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Minsk We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Minsk
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Minsk Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Minsk
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Minsk A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Minsk
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Minsk Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Minsk
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Minsk Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Minsk
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Minsk All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Minsk
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Minsk When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Minsk
