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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 Computer Science "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Computer Science
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Computer Science We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 Computer Science
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Computer Science Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Computer Science
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Computer Science I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Computer Science
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computer Science Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Computer Science
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Computer Science I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Computer Science
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Computer Science Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Computer Science
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Computer Science To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Computer Science
"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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Computer Science Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Computer Science
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Computer Science Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Computer Science
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Computer Science Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Computer Science
