Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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 Przemysl We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Przemysl
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Przemysl Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Przemysl
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Przemysl When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Przemysl
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Przemysl If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Przemysl
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Przemysl "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) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Przemysl
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Przemysl "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Przemysl
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Przemysl That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Przemysl
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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) Przemysl Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Przemysl
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Przemysl 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 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Przemysl
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Przemysl Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Przemysl
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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
duties.
? Work I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Przemysl Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Przemysl
