I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By Region "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson By Region
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) By Region If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith By Region
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 By Region "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) By Region
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 By Region "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) By Region
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. By Region Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) By Region
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to By Region If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X By Region
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) By Region Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words By Region
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 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 By Region "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) By Region
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) By Region Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo By Region
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings By Region If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By Region
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying By Region "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) By Region
