Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Free Flying "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Free Flying
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Free Flying However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Free Flying
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Free Flying When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Free Flying
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Free Flying The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Free Flying
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Free Flying "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Free Flying
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Free Flying Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Free Flying
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Free Flying The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Free Flying
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Free Flying Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Free Flying
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Free Flying Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Free Flying
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Free Flying Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Free Flying
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Free Flying 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Free Flying
