Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Politics Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Politics
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Politics You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Politics
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Politics Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Politics
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Politics
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Politics If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Politics
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Politics "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Politics
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Politics Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Politics
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Politics If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Politics
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Politics It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Politics
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Politics True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Politics Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Politics
