Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Guides and Directories Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Guides and Directories
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Guides and Directories blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Guides and Directories
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Guides and Directories 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Guides and Directories
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Guides and Directories
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Guides and Directories
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Guides and Directories I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Guides and Directories
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) 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. Guides and Directories "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Guides and Directories
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Guides and Directories As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Guides and Directories
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Guides and Directories blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Guides and Directories
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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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 Guides and Directories "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Guides and Directories
