Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Chemnitz "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Chemnitz
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Chemnitz Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Chemnitz
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Chemnitz I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Chemnitz
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chemnitz "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Chemnitz
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Chemnitz "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Chemnitz
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Chemnitz 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 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Chemnitz
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "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) Chemnitz I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Chemnitz
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Chemnitz "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Chemnitz
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Chemnitz "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Chemnitz
"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) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Chemnitz A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Chemnitz
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Chemnitz "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Chemnitz
