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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Lodging Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lodging
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lodging In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Lodging
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Lodging
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon 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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Lodging Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Lodging
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lodging Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Lodging
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Lodging
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Lodging To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Lodging
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 Lodging "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth 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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"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Lodging
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Lodging "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Lodging
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Lodging
