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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Asti I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Asti
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Asti A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asti
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Asti "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) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Asti
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Asti Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Asti
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Asti There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Asti
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Asti Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Asti
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Asti "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 Asti
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Asti "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 Asti
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "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) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Asti To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Asti
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Asti There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Asti
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Asti "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Asti
