There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) M Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin M
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson M "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) M
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! M It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde M
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous M Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain M
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast M Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward M
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt M The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) M
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. M "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) M
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen M Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle M
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 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. M "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous M
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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl M An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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" During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard M
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) M If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein M
