"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Chats and Forums Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Chats and Forums
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Chats and Forums A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Chats and Forums
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Chats and Forums His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Chats and Forums
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Chats and Forums He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Chats and Forums
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Chats and Forums "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Chats and Forums
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Chats and Forums I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Chats and Forums
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire 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,
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Chats and Forums A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Chats and Forums
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Chats and Forums "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Chats and Forums
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Chats and Forums We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "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, Chats and Forums
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Chats and Forums At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Chats and Forums
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Chats and Forums Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chats and Forums
