Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Omsk One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Omsk
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Omsk "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Omsk
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Omsk Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Omsk
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Omsk "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Omsk
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Omsk your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Omsk
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "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) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Omsk It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Omsk
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 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 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 Omsk "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Omsk
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "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) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Omsk They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Omsk
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying 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 Omsk When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Omsk
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Omsk The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Omsk
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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.
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Omsk Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Omsk
