"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Computers and Internet Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Computers and Internet
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Computers and Internet "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Computers and Internet
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Computers and Internet Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Computers and Internet We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "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) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Computers and Internet
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Computers and Internet Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Computers and Internet "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Computers and Internet
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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Computers and Internet It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Computers and Internet
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Computers and Internet In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Computers and Internet
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Computers and Internet Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Computers and Internet
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Computers and Internet "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Computers and Internet
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler 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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Computers and Internet blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers and Internet
