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The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Translation Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Translation
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Translation I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Translation
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Translation The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Translation
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Translation It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Translation
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Translation I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Translation
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Translation Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Translation
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Translation "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Translation
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Translation Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Translation
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Translation He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Translation
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Translation He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Translation
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Translation I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Translation
