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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Government We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Government
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Government True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Government
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Government "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Government
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. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Government
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Government Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Government
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Government Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Government
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Government The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Government
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "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) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Government 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Government
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Government Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Government
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Government He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Government
