Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Voivodships 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Voivodships
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Voivodships 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 A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Voivodships
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Voivodships Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Voivodships
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Voivodships Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 Voivodships
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Voivodships What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Voivodships
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "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) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Voivodships We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Voivodships
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Voivodships "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Voivodships
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Voivodships No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese 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 The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Voivodships
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Voivodships "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Voivodships
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Voivodships If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Voivodships
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Voivodships "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Voivodships
