Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb .. 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Computers and Internet You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Computers and Internet
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "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) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Computers and Internet The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Computers and Internet
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 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 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Computers and Internet "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Computers and Internet
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Computers and Internet
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Computers and Internet Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Computers and Internet
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Computers and Internet "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Computers and Internet
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making 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 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Computers and Internet Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Computers and Internet
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Computers and Internet 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 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Computers and Internet
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Computers and Internet "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Computers and Internet My other wife is beautiful. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Computers and Internet
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Computers and Internet Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Computers and Internet
