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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Government There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Government
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Government
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 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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Government Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Government
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Government "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Government Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Government
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Government Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Government
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Government "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Government
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Government Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Government
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Government Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Government "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) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Government
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Government Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Government
