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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Architecture A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Architecture
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Architecture
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch 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 time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Architecture Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Architecture
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Architecture "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) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Architecture
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Architecture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Architecture
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Architecture To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Architecture
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Architecture Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Architecture
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Architecture Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Architecture
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Architecture There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Architecture
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper 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 Architecture One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Architecture
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "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) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Architecture Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Architecture
