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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin News and Media What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows News and Media
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Unhappy "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus News and Media Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom News and Media
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer News and Media That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media
May you never leave your marriage alive. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine News and Media I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. News and Media
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be 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 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) News and Media 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.
-- Anonymous "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman News and Media
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 News and Media "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) News and Media
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans News and Media We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck News and Media
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson News and Media I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 News and Media
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock News and Media The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming News and Media
