The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Education
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Education A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Education Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Education
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education 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 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education
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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"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" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Education It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Education
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Education Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Education
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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 fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Education In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Education
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Education Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Education
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Education "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Education
