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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Publications If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Publications
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 Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Publications To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Publications
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Publications "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Publications
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Publications Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Publications
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Publications Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Publications
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf 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 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Publications "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Publications
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Publications "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Publications
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Publications 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 "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Publications
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Publications "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Publications
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Publications Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Publications
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Publications "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, Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Publications
