A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Computers and Internet Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Computers and Internet
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Computers and Internet Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Computers and Internet
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Computers and Internet "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Computers and Internet
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Computers and Internet To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Computers and Internet
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers and Internet Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard My other wife is beautiful. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Computers and Internet
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Computers and Internet
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Computers and Internet The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Computers and Internet
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Computers and Internet Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick 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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Computers and Internet
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers and Internet Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Computers and Internet
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Computers and Internet The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 Computers and Internet
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Computers and Internet "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Computers and Internet
