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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Agencies Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Agencies
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric 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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Agencies A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Agencies
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Agencies 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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Agencies
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Agencies Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Agencies
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Agencies There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Agencies
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Agencies The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Agencies
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Agencies To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Agencies
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Agencies For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Agencies
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Agencies Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Agencies
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Agencies "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Agencies
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Agencies Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Agencies
