I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Computers and Internet Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers and Internet
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Computers and Internet Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Computers and Internet
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Computers and Internet May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Computers and Internet
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Computers and Internet "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Computers and Internet
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers and Internet When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Computers and Internet
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Computers and Internet To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell Computers and Internet
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "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 Computers and Internet In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Computers and Internet
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Computers and Internet "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Computers and Internet
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "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) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Computers and Internet "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Computers and Internet
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Computers and Internet Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 Computers and Internet
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Computers and Internet "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Computers and Internet
