Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Cycling The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Cycling
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Cycling "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cycling
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Cycling It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Cycling
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Cycling 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Cycling
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Cycling The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Cycling
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cycling "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Cycling
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Cycling The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Cycling
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Cycling If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Cycling
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Cycling 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cycling
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Cycling No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Cycling
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Cycling "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Cycling
