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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Computing People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Computing
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Computing "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Computing
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Computing Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Computing
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Computing I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Computing
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Computing "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computing
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Computing "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Computing
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Computing "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Computing
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 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. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Computing "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Computing
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Computing Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Computing
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Computing You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Computing
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Computing The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Computing
