"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Guides and Directories Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Guides and Directories Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Guides and Directories
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Guides and Directories Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Guides and Directories
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Guides and Directories
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Guides and Directories Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Guides and Directories
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Guides and Directories "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Guides and Directories The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Guides and Directories It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler 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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Guides and Directories
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Guides and Directories The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Guides and Directories
