Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Education "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Education
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Education In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Education
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Education A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Education
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Education I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Education
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Education Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Education
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education
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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 Education "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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, "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Education
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education
