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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Vienne Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Vienne
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 Vienne The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Vienne
"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 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Vienne Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Vienne
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Vienne Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Vienne
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "... 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) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Vienne Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Vienne
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Vienne I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Vienne
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Vienne My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Vienne
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Vienne An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Vienne
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "'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) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Vienne Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Vienne
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Vienne I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Vienne
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Vienne Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Vienne
