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-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Durham A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Durham
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "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, When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Durham "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Durham
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Durham "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Durham
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Durham "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Durham
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Durham A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Durham
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Durham Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Durham
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 Durham I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Durham
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Durham It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Durham
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Durham I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Durham
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Durham "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "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 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Durham
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Durham Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Durham
