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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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) Computers and Internet The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Computers and Internet
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Computers and Internet Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Computers and Internet
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Computers and Internet You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Computers and Internet
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Computers and Internet "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Computers and Internet
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Computers and Internet There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Computers and Internet
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Computers and Internet For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Computers and Internet
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Computers and Internet Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Computers and Internet
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Computers and Internet
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Computers and Internet There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Computers and Internet
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Computers and Internet The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Computers and Internet
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers and Internet There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Computers and Internet
