"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Localities Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Localities
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Localities "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) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Localities
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Localities If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Localities
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Localities "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Localities
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Localities "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Localities
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Localities He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Localities
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Localities If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Localities
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Localities "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Localities
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Localities "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Localities "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Localities
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Localities Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Localities
