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At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Magazines and E-zines "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Magazines and E-zines
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Magazines and E-zines "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Magazines and E-zines
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Magazines and E-zines It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Magazines and E-zines
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Magazines and E-zines I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Magazines and E-zines
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Magazines and E-zines The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Magazines and E-zines
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Magazines and E-zines Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Magazines and E-zines
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins >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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Magazines and E-zines "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Magazines and E-zines
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Magazines and E-zines A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Magazines and E-zines
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Magazines and E-zines "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Magazines and E-zines
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Magazines and E-zines "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Magazines and E-zines
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Magazines and E-zines "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Magazines and E-zines
