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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Rabat Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Rabat
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Rabat "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Rabat
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Rabat Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Rabat
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 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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Rabat In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Rabat
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Rabat When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Rabat
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Rabat "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Rabat
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw 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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Rabat I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Rabat
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Rabat "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Rabat
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Rabat I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Rabat
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Rabat Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Rabat
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Rabat If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Rabat
