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Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Dartry "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Dartry
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Dartry A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Dartry
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Dartry You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Dartry
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Dartry Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Dartry
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Dartry cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Dartry
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. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Dartry When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Dartry
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Dartry The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "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) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Dartry
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Dartry I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Dartry
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Dartry Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dartry
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Dartry The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Dartry
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Dartry When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Dartry
