Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Computers and Internet The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Computers and Internet
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Computers and Internet Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Computers and Internet
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Computers and Internet "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Computers and Internet
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Computers and Internet "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers and Internet
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Computers and Internet The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Computers and Internet
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Computers and Internet The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Computers and Internet
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet "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) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Computers and Internet
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "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) Computers and Internet There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Computers and Internet
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Computers and Internet True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Computers and Internet
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Computers and Internet Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Computers and Internet
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 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 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Computers and Internet
