"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) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Languedoc-Roussillon Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Languedoc-Roussillon
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Languedoc-Roussillon 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Languedoc-Roussillon
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Languedoc-Roussillon In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Languedoc-Roussillon
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "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 Languedoc-Roussillon The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Languedoc-Roussillon
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Languedoc-Roussillon One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Languedoc-Roussillon
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Languedoc-Roussillon May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Languedoc-Roussillon
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Languedoc-Roussillon The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Languedoc-Roussillon
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Languedoc-Roussillon "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Languedoc-Roussillon
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Languedoc-Roussillon You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Languedoc-Roussillon
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Languedoc-Roussillon Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Languedoc-Roussillon
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Languedoc-Roussillon The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Languedoc-Roussillon
