"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) X "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) X
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain X Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery X
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "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) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb X For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine X
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 X Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch X
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin X He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau X
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker X "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry X
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West X The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau X
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson X "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') X
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 X In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce X
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers X The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide X
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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.
X The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song X
