Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Aust-Agder The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Aust-Agder
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Aust-Agder We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Aust-Agder
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Aust-Agder "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Aust-Agder
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Aust-Agder I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Aust-Agder
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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Aust-Agder "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Aust-Agder
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Aust-Agder Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Aust-Agder
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Aust-Agder "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Aust-Agder
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Aust-Agder Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Aust-Agder
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Aust-Agder There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Aust-Agder
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Aust-Agder Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Aust-Agder
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Aust-Agder Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Aust-Agder
