"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) 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 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Localities I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "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) Localities
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Localities "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 Localities
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Localities Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Localities I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Localities
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Localities "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Localities
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Localities "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Localities
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Localities Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Localities
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Localities Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Localities
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Localities Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Localities
"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) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Localities There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Localities
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Localities A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Localities
