"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Developers Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Developers
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Developers Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Developers
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Developers There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Developers
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Developers 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 sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Developers
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Developers Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "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) Developers
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Developers When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Developers
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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Developers I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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,
Developers
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Developers A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Developers
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Developers He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Developers
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Developers Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Developers
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Developers 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 am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Developers
