In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Financial Services Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates 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 Financial Services
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Financial Services The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Financial Services
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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.
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Financial Services "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Financial Services
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "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) Financial Services Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Financial Services
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Financial Services There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Financial Services
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Financial Services Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Financial Services
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Financial Services I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Financial Services
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Financial Services 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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Financial Services
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Financial Services blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Financial Services
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Financial Services Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Financial Services
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Financial Services The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Financial Services
