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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "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) 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Ballon "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Ballon
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Ballon A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Ballon
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Ballon "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Ballon
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Ballon "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Ballon
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Ballon A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Ballon
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Ballon I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Ballon
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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 Ballon "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Ballon
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) What's new? Most of my wife. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Ballon The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Ballon
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Ballon If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Ballon
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ballon A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Ballon
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Ballon There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane ... 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
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ballon
