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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Irshava "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Irshava
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Irshava Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Irshava
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Irshava "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Irshava
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Irshava blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Irshava
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra 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 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Irshava Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Irshava
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Irshava The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Irshava
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Irshava Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Irshava
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irshava You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Irshava
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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Irshava Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Irshava
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Irshava I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Irshava
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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Irshava Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Irshava
