Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Albina The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Albina
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Albina Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Albina
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Albina The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Albina
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Albina A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Albina
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Albina Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Albina
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Albina Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Albina
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "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) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Albina To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Albina Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Albina
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Albina There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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.
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Albina
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Albina May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Albina
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Albina A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) 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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