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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Business to Business "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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Business to Business
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Business to Business Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Business to Business
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Business to Business 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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business to Business
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Business to Business It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Business to Business
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Business to Business The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Business to Business
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business to Business A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Business to Business
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Business to Business "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) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Business to Business
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Business to Business Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Business to Business
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Business to Business We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Business to Business
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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Business to Business We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Business to Business
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Business to Business Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Business to Business
