Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
-- Crowf I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale By Locality Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e By Locality
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting By Locality I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) By Locality
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) By Locality He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Locality
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung By Locality Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden By Locality
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte By Locality A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th By Locality
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" By Locality Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di By Locality
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless By Locality They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) By Locality
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) By Locality All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) By Locality
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert By Locality We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan By Locality
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) By Locality A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Locality
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) By Locality I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee By Locality
