"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Departments Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Departments
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Departments "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Departments
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Departments It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Departments
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Departments Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Departments
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Departments Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Departments
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Departments "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Departments
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Departments I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Departments
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Departments Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Departments
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Departments Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Departments
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Departments Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Departments
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Departments Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Departments
