Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "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 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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Computers and Internet "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) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Computers and Internet
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Computers and Internet "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Computers and Internet
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Computers and Internet "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Computers and Internet
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Computers and Internet How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Computers and Internet
What's new? Most of my wife. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers and Internet
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Computers and Internet 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Computers and Internet
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Computers and Internet "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Computers and Internet We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Computers and Internet A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Computers and Internet
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "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) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Computers and Internet It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Computers and Internet
"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, ignorance, g 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 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Computers and Internet Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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