A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Scuba If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Scuba
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 Scuba You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Scuba Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Scuba
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Scuba UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Scuba
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Scuba 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. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Scuba
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Scuba "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Scuba
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Scuba Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Scuba
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Scuba "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Scuba
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Scuba Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Scuba
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Scuba 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 Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Scuba Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Scuba
