Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Business and Economy If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Business and Economy "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Business and Economy
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Business and Economy "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Business and Economy What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Business and Economy 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Business and Economy 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Business and Economy
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Business and Economy
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Business and Economy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Business and Economy
