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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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
grie Chios Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Chios
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Chios "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Chios
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Chios Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre May you never leave your marriage alive. Chios
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Chios Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chios
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Chios "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) 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 Chios
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Chios "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Chios
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 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 Chios Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Chios
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Chios "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Chios
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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Chios Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Chios
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Chios I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Chios
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Chios "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Chios
