"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Technology I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Technology
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Technology If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Technology
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Technology We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Technology
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Technology To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Technology
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Technology Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Technology
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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Technology "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Technology
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Technology The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Technology
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Technology Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Technology
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Technology To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Technology
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Technology This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Technology
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Technology Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Technology
