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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Wieliczka "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Wieliczka
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Wieliczka That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Wieliczka
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Wieliczka blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Wieliczka
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Wieliczka A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Wieliczka
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Wieliczka "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Wieliczka
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Wieliczka Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Wieliczka
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Wieliczka "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Wieliczka
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Wieliczka Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Wieliczka
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Wieliczka Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Wieliczka
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Wieliczka People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Wieliczka
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Wieliczka 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.
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Wieliczka
