Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Cycling Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Cycling
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Cycling The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Cycling
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Cycling The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Cycling
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Cycling "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Cycling
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "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) Cycling The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Cycling
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Cycling 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 I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Cycling
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cycling If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cycling
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Cycling A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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.
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Cycling "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Cycling
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Cycling Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cycling
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Cycling In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Cycling
