"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) R Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans R
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 R In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 R "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier R
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln R Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore R
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) R Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine R
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov R "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone R
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham R "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 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
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) R I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. R
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw R We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside R Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle R
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) R The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho R
