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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" I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder News When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i News Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President News Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud 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. 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. News I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole 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, "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. News It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard News Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses News "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller News Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) News "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo News All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb News If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) News Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire News Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt "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) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire News Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) News The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) News Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin News Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem News Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost 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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran News When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard News Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) News We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou News
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