The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Samos Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre 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.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Samos
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Samos There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Samos
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Samos "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Samos
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Samos "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Samos
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Samos "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Samos
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf 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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril 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 Samos "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Samos
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Samos "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Samos
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Samos After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Samos
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Samos One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "... 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) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Samos
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Samos I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Samos
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Samos A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Samos
