Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Piekary Slaskie "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Piekary Slaskie
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Piekary Slaskie "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Piekary Slaskie
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Piekary Slaskie The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Piekary Slaskie
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Piekary Slaskie The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Piekary Slaskie
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Piekary Slaskie All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Piekary Slaskie
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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Piekary Slaskie "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Piekary Slaskie
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Piekary Slaskie "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Piekary Slaskie
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. 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 Piekary Slaskie the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Piekary Slaskie
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Piekary Slaskie I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Piekary Slaskie
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Piekary Slaskie 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" A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Piekary Slaskie
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Piekary Slaskie I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Piekary Slaskie
