An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux M "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) M
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) M "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel M
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli M Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins M I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou M
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife M Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from M
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous M "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) M
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George M "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln M
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde M "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier M
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln M "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time M
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt M And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx M
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein M Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) M
