It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) J Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) J
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle J A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri J There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) J
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 J We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe J
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi J "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo J
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal J I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen J
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) J Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) J
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre J My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield J
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan J Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw J
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) 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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach J Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw J
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. J Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan J
