"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Kisko Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Kisko
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Kisko "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Kisko
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Kisko "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Kisko
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Kisko I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Kisko
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Kisko The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Kisko
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Kisko Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) Kisko
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall 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 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Kisko I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Kisko
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kisko Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Kisko
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Kisko "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Kisko
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Kisko I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Kisko
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Kisko "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Kisko
