My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Arts and Entertainment
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Arts and Entertainment "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Arts and Entertainment
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Arts and Entertainment
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Arts and Entertainment
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Arts and Entertainment The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Arts and Entertainment
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment 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 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Arts and Entertainment
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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