There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Stryi Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Stryi
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Stryi "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Stryi
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Stryi If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Stryi
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stryi I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Stryi
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Stryi "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Stryi
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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Stryi A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Stryi
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Stryi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Stryi
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Stryi Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Stryi
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Stryi Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Stryi
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Stryi "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Stryi
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Stryi Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Stryi
