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 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Security If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Security
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Security "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks 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 Security
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Security Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Security
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Security "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Security
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 Security "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Security
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 Security Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Security
My other wife is beautiful. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Security We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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) Security
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "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) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Security Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Security
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Security Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Security
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Security If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Security
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Security "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Security
