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When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Society and Culture 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 "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Society and Culture When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Society and Culture I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Society and Culture "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Society and Culture "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture
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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Society and Culture America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "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 dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Society and Culture I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "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) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Society and Culture
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Society and Culture
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Society and Culture
