If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Krasnodon There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Krasnodon
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Krasnodon Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Krasnodon
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Krasnodon One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Krasnodon
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Krasnodon They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Krasnodon
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Krasnodon "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Krasnodon
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Krasnodon The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Krasnodon
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Krasnodon "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Krasnodon
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Krasnodon Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Krasnodon
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Krasnodon We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Krasnodon
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Krasnodon "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Krasnodon
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Krasnodon 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Krasnodon
