Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Linnich "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Linnich
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Linnich If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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 Linnich
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Linnich If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Linnich
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Linnich The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Linnich
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Linnich The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Linnich
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Linnich Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Linnich
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Linnich These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Linnich
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Linnich Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Linnich
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Linnich Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Linnich
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Linnich Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Linnich
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Linnich Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Linnich
