If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Kimmage "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Kimmage
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kimmage "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Kimmage
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 Kimmage If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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 Kimmage
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "'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) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Kimmage The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Kimmage
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Kimmage You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Kimmage
"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.) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Kimmage Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Kimmage
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Kimmage This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Kimmage
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Kimmage "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Kimmage
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Kimmage If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Kimmage
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Kimmage "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Kimmage
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Kimmage It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Kimmage
