More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Property I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Property
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Property Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Property
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Property In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Property
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Property 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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Property
"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) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Property We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer 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.
Property
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Property "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Property
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Property When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Property
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Property Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Property
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Property Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Property
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Property For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Property
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 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Property When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Property
