I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Computers and Internet Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Computers and Internet
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Computers and Internet "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Computers and Internet
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Computers and Internet You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Computers and Internet
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Computers and Internet blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Computers and Internet
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Computers and Internet I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Computers and Internet
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Computers and Internet Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Computers and Internet
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Computers and Internet You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Computers and Internet
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Computers and Internet There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Computers and Internet
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Computers and Internet "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Computers and Internet
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Computers and Internet "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) What's new? Most of my wife. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 Computers and Internet How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Computers and Internet
