Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Kuusankoski Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Kuusankoski
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Kuusankoski The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Kuusankoski
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Kuusankoski Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Kuusankoski
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Kuusankoski Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Kuusankoski
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Kuusankoski Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Kuusankoski
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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 Kuusankoski A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Kuusankoski
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Kuusankoski "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Kuusankoski
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca .. 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 Kuusankoski There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Kuusankoski
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Kuusankoski Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 >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 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kuusankoski
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Kuusankoski History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Kuusankoski
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Kuusankoski Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Kuusankoski
