The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Oscar Wilde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Online
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) May you never leave your marriage alive. Online "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Oscar W "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Online
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Online I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Online
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
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-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Online A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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) Online
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Online Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Online
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Jeff Raskin Online The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
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-- Slavoj Zizek If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Online
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Online "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Online
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Online All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Online
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Online Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Online
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Online blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Online
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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worse tha Online I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Online
