Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Eden When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Eden
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Eden A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Eden
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Eden If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Eden
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "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, Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Eden Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Eden
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Eden "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Eden
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Eden Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Eden
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Eden Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Eden
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Eden Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eden
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Eden Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Eden
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Eden It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Eden
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Eden "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Eden
