Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Religion Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Religion
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Religion The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Religion
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Religion Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Religion
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Religion "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Religion
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Religion "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Religion
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Religion In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Religion
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Religion Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Religion
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Religion "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Religion
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Religion "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Religion
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Religion Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Religion
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Religion There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
