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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 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodging "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Lodging
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Lodging "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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, Lodging
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Lodging "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodging
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Lodging "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Lodging
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Lodging It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Lodging
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Lodging "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Lodging
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Lodging We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Lodging
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "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) Lodging Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Lodging
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Lodging It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Lodging
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Lodging The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Lodging
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Lodging I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Lodging
