Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Lozere Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Lozere
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Lozere "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Lozere
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Lozere 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Lozere
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Lozere I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Lozere
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Lozere 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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Lozere
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Lozere Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Lozere
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Lozere Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Lozere
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Lozere Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Lozere
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Lozere Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Lozere
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Lozere Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Lozere
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Lozere I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Lozere
