To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous N Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) N
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan N We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) N
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon 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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb N When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius N
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson N Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy N
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan N While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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.
-- Crow N
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Think off-center." (George Carlin) N We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West N
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa N They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B N
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide N Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb N
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 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur N Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm N
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett N Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 N
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 N Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele N
