"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Hordaland 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Hordaland
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Hordaland "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Hordaland
"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) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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." Hordaland Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Hordaland
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Hordaland Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Hordaland
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hordaland It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Hordaland
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Hordaland I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Hordaland
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Hordaland Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Hordaland
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 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "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 Hordaland I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Hordaland
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Hordaland Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Hordaland
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Hordaland Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Hordaland
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Hordaland Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Hordaland
