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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Chats and Forums "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) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Chats and Forums
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "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) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Chats and Forums I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Chats and Forums
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Chats and Forums "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Chats and Forums
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Chats and Forums Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein 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 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Chats and Forums
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Chats and Forums There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Chats and Forums In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Chats and Forums
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Chats and Forums Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Chats and Forums
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Chats and Forums "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Chats and Forums
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Chats and Forums If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chats and Forums
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Chats and Forums One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Chats and Forums
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes May you never leave your marriage alive. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Chats and Forums "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) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Chats and Forums
