"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Organizations The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Organizations
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "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) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Organizations Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Organizations
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Organizations "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert 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 Organizations
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.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organizations There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Organizations
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Organizations "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Organizations
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Organizations I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Organizations
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Organizations The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Organizations
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Organizations Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Organizations
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Organizations "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Organizations
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage 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 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Organizations Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Organizations
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Organizations I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Organizations
