blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Naxos Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Naxos
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Naxos "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Naxos
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Naxos "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Naxos
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Naxos It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Naxos
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Naxos "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Naxos
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Naxos "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Naxos
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Naxos "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Naxos
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Naxos Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 Naxos
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Naxos A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Naxos
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 Naxos "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Naxos
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Naxos My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Naxos
