"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Paxos blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Paxos
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Paxos The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Paxos
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Paxos I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "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) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Paxos
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Paxos Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Paxos
"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) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Paxos The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Paxos
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Paxos I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paxos
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Paxos Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Paxos
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Paxos If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Paxos
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Paxos You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Paxos
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Paxos "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Paxos
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Paxos "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Paxos
