Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Pelion I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Pelion
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pelion I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Pelion
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Pelion Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pelion
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Pelion And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Pelion
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pelion Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Pelion
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Pelion Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Pelion
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Pelion I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Pelion
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Pelion 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Pelion
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pelion 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 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Pelion
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Pelion "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Pelion
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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Pelion "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Pelion
