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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Lodging blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Lodging
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Lodging All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "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 Lodging
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 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 Lodging My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Lodging
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Lodging If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Lodging
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Lodging "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Lodging
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Lodging Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Lodging
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Lodging To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Lodging
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Lodging I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Lodging
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "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) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Lodging Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Lodging
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Lodging If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Lodging
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "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) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Lodging All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Lodging
