I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Personal Homepages It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West 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 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Personal Homepages
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Personal Homepages 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? The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Personal Homepages
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Personal Homepages There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Personal Homepages
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Personal Homepages Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Use your own best judgment at all times.
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Personal Homepages "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Personal Homepages
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Homepages 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
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? Work 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" Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Personal Homepages
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Personal Homepages "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Personal Homepages
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Personal Homepages There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Personal Homepages
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Homepages An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Personal Homepages
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Personal Homepages Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Personal Homepages
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Personal Homepages Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Personal Homepages
