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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Politics Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Politics
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Politics If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 Politics
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Politics One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Politics
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Politics I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Politics
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Politics
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Politics "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Politics
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Politics When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Politics
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Politics Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Politics
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Politics "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Politics
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Politics If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "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 Politics
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Politics Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Politics
