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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Portlaw I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Portlaw
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Portlaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner What's new? Most of my wife. Portlaw
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Portlaw It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Portlaw
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Portlaw Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Portlaw
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Portlaw Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Portlaw God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Portlaw
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Portlaw Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Portlaw
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Portlaw "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Portlaw
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Portlaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Portlaw
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Portlaw The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Portlaw
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Portlaw Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Portlaw
