Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe H In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes H
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 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 H I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West H
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt H Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg H
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery H I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. H
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley H Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 H
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis H Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin H
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan H Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills H
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau H A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde H
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France H It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 H
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) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan H Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. H
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry H Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) H