"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Agriculture We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Agriculture
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Agriculture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Agriculture
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Agriculture "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 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 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Agriculture
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Agriculture The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Agriculture
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Agriculture "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Agriculture
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Agriculture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Agriculture
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Agriculture Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Agriculture
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Agriculture Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Agriculture
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Agriculture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 Agriculture
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Agriculture "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Agriculture
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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? Agriculture If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Agriculture
