All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Smolian Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Smolian
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. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Smolian Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Smolian
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Smolian We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Smolian
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Smolian If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson 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. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Smolian
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Smolian "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Smolian
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Smolian 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) 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.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Smolian
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Smolian A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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 Smolian
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Smolian Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Smolian
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Smolian "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) 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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Smolian
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Smolian "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Smolian
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Smolian The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Smolian
