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Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Computers and Internet If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p 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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Computers and Internet
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Computers and Internet I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Computers and Internet
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Computers and Internet Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Computers and Internet
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Computers and Internet blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Computers and Internet
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Computers and Internet
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Computers and Internet "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Computers and Internet
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Computers and Internet "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Computers and Internet
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Computers and Internet In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Computers and Internet
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Computers and Internet
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Computers and Internet Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Computers and Internet
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Computers and Internet The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Computers and Internet
