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We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Dependent Areas "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Dependent Areas
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Dependent Areas "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Dependent Areas
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 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 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Dependent Areas "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Dependent Areas
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Dependent Areas I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 Dependent Areas
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Dependent Areas I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Dependent Areas
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 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 Dependent Areas Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Dependent Areas
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Dependent Areas A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Dependent Areas
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Dependent Areas I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Dependent Areas
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Dependent Areas The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Dependent Areas
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Dependent Areas "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Dependent Areas
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Dependent Areas UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "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 evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Dependent Areas
