"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Walking Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Walking
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Walking "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Walking
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Walking Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Walking
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Walking The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Walking
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Walking We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Walking
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Walking More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Walking
Man and wife make one fool. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Walking Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Walking
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Walking People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Walking
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Walking The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Walking
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Walking And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Walking
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Walking Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Walking
