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"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Government Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Government
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Government Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Government
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Government Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Government
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "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) 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 Government Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Government
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Government Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Government
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Government Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Government
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Government "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) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Government
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Government Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Government
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Government There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Government
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Government There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Government
"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) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Government I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Government
