"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Oleksandriya I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Oleksandriya
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Oleksandriya "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Oleksandriya
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Oleksandriya Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Oleksandriya
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan Oleksandriya I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oleksandriya
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Oleksandriya "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Oleksandriya
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Oleksandriya I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran Oleksandriya
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Oleksandriya What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins Oleksandriya
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Oleksandriya .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Oleksandriya
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Oleksandriya "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Oleksandriya
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Oleksandriya The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oleksandriya 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 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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