"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Organisations "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Organisations
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Organisations History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Organisations
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Organisations Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Organisations
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Organisations The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organisations
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Organisations I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organisations
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Organisations Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Organisations
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Organisations I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Organisations
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Organisations Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Organisations
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Organisations 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 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Organisations
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen 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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Organisations "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Organisations
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Organisations "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations
