Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Localities
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Localities Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Localities
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Localities We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Localities
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Localities I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Localities
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Localities 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Localities
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Localities The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Localities
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Localities
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Localities Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Localities
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Localities They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Localities
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Localities "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Localities
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Localities I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
