I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Korop "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Korop
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Korop Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Korop
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Korop Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Korop
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 Korop Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Korop
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Korop I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Korop
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "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) Korop I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Korop
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Korop A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Korop
"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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Korop Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Korop
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Korop "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Korop
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Korop A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Korop
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 Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "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) Korop Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Korop
