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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw B Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) B
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire B Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) B
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde B "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson B
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain B Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) B
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. B Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) B
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare B Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine B
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. B "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous B
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry B In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley B
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. B "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne B
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) B The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi B
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein B I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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 B
