Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Architecture Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Architecture
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Architecture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Architecture
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Architecture For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Architecture
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Architecture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Architecture
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Architecture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Architecture
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Architecture "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Architecture
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Architecture If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Architecture
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Architecture "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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Architecture
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Architecture Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Architecture
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 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Architecture One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Architecture
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Architecture Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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