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The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Interest and Enthusiast Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Interest and Enthusiast
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Interest and Enthusiast Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Interest and Enthusiast
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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Interest and Enthusiast "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Interest and Enthusiast
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Interest and Enthusiast I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Interest and Enthusiast
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Interest and Enthusiast I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Interest and Enthusiast
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Interest and Enthusiast There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Interest and Enthusiast
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Interest and Enthusiast There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Interest and Enthusiast
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Interest and Enthusiast "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Interest and Enthusiast
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Interest and Enthusiast I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Interest and Enthusiast
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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.
-- Anonymous I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Interest and Enthusiast A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 Interest and Enthusiast
"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, There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Interest and Enthusiast Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 Interest and Enthusiast
