Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Catalonia Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Catalonia
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Catalonia We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Catalonia
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Catalonia The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Catalonia
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Catalonia The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Catalonia
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Catalonia The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Catalonia
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Catalonia The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Catalonia
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Catalonia Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Catalonia
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Catalonia How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Catalonia
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Catalonia Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Catalonia
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Catalonia Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Catalonia
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Catalonia The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Catalonia
