I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Attica "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Attica
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Attica "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Attica
"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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Attica Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Attica
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Attica I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Attica
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Attica "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Attica
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "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) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Attica "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attica
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Attica blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Attica
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Attica Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Attica
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Attica "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Attica
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Attica Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Attica
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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Attica The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Attica
