"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Kos 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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Kos
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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Kos If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 Kos
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Kos A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Kos
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Kos I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Kos
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Kos A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Kos
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Kos "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Kos
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Kos Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Kos
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Kos Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Kos
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Kos The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Kos
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Kos "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) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kos
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Kos Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Kos
