The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Localities Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Localities
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Localities "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Localities
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "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) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Localities A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Localities
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Localities Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Localities
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Localities
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Localities "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Localities
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Localities Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Localities
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Localities The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Localities
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Localities "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Localities
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Localities "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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Localities If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Localities
