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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) Chats and Forums A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Chats and Forums
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Chats and Forums
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Chats and Forums Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Chats and Forums
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Chats and Forums You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Chats and Forums
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Chats and Forums "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 Chats and Forums
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Chats and Forums 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Chats and Forums
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Chats and Forums "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Chats and Forums
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Chats and Forums
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Chats and Forums Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Chats and Forums
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Chats and Forums "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Chats and Forums
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Chats and Forums "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Chats and Forums
