History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Livestock Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Livestock
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Livestock 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Livestock
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 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Livestock Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Livestock
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Livestock Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Livestock
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Livestock The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Livestock
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Livestock Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Livestock
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Livestock Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Livestock
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Livestock I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Livestock
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Livestock "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Livestock
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Livestock The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Livestock
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Livestock The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Livestock
