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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Cycling If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Cycling
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Cycling Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Cycling
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Cycling 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Cycling
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Cycling "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) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Cycling
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Cycling "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Cycling
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Cycling Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Cycling
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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) Cycling Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Cycling
"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) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Cycling A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Cycling
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Cycling There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Cycling
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Cycling People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cycling
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Cycling Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Cycling
