Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Oost-Vlaanderen "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Oost-Vlaanderen
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois 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 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Oost-Vlaanderen "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Oost-Vlaanderen
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Oost-Vlaanderen Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Oost-Vlaanderen
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Oost-Vlaanderen You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Oost-Vlaanderen
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Oost-Vlaanderen Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Oost-Vlaanderen
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Oost-Vlaanderen Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Oost-Vlaanderen
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do 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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Oost-Vlaanderen Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Oost-Vlaanderen
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Oost-Vlaanderen Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Oost-Vlaanderen
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Oost-Vlaanderen "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Oost-Vlaanderen
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Oost-Vlaanderen 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Oost-Vlaanderen
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Oost-Vlaanderen then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Oost-Vlaanderen
