The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Outokumpu I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Outokumpu
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Outokumpu 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Outokumpu
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Outokumpu Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Outokumpu
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Outokumpu May you never leave your marriage alive. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Outokumpu
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Outokumpu "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Outokumpu
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Outokumpu Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Outokumpu
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Outokumpu "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Outokumpu
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Outokumpu Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "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) Outokumpu
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Outokumpu "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Outokumpu
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Outokumpu The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Outokumpu
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Outokumpu Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Outokumpu
