Fievet, Cyril - French freelance writer and photographer, specializing in new technologies.
Josephs, Jeremy - English freelance writer and journalist based in France, and writing mainly about French matters.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Journalists 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 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Journalists
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. 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.
Journalists "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Journalists
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Journalists For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Journalists
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Journalists For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Journalists
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Journalists As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Journalists
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Journalists "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Journalists
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Journalists There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Journalists
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Journalists I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) 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 Journalists
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Journalists An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Journalists
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Journalists I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Journalists
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan 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 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 Journalists Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Journalists
