"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Outdoors "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Outdoors
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Outdoors "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Outdoors
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Outdoors 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 "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) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Outdoors
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Outdoors "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Outdoors
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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 seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Outdoors "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Outdoors
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Outdoors I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Outdoors
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outdoors Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Outdoors
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Outdoors MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Outdoors
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Outdoors 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 He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller 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 Outdoors
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Outdoors Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Outdoors
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Outdoors "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) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Outdoors
