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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Istra Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "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 Istra
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Istra When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Istra
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Istra Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Istra
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Istra The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Istra
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Istra Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Istra
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Istra We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "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) Istra
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Istra His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Istra
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Istra If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Istra
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Istra I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Istra
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Istra May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Istra
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Istra See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Istra
