I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Jakobstad Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Jakobstad
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Jakobstad 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. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Jakobstad
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Jakobstad "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower >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 Jakobstad
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jakobstad Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Jakobstad
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Jakobstad "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Jakobstad
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Jakobstad "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Jakobstad
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Jakobstad Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Jakobstad
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Jakobstad You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Jakobstad
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Jakobstad My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Jakobstad
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Jakobstad That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle 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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Jakobstad
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Jakobstad Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Jakobstad
