Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch H Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler H
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner H One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) H
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) H Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str 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 H
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show H Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) H
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen H The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 H "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. H
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words H God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) H
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich H "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland H
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) H "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West H
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) 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.
-- Winston Churchill The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 H I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 H In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck H
