Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Computers and Internet
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers and Internet Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "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) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Computers and Internet
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Computers and Internet Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Computers and Internet
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Computers and Internet A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Computers and Internet
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Computers and Internet A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Computers and Internet Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Computers and Internet
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Computers and Internet Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Computers and Internet
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Computers and Internet Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Computers and Internet
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Computers and Internet Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Computers and Internet
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Computers and Internet If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Computers and Internet
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Computers and Internet He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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