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The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Engineering May you never leave your marriage alive. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Engineering
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Engineering One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Engineering
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Engineering "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Engineering
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Engineering Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Engineering
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Engineering Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Engineering
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Engineering "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Engineering
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "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) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Engineering The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Engineering
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Engineering Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Engineering
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.
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Engineering "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Engineering
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Engineering I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Engineering
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Engineering The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Engineering
