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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Volos Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Volos
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Volos "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) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Volos
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Volos Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Volos
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Volos He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Volos
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Volos Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 Volos
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Volos Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Volos
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Volos Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Volos
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Volos It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Volos
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Volos Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Volos
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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 Volos "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Volos
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Volos I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Volos
