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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Maps and Views The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Maps and Views
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Maps and Views "Think off-center." (George Carlin) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Maps and Views
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha 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 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Maps and Views Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Maps and Views
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Maps and Views Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Maps and Views "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Maps and Views
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Maps and Views "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Maps and Views
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Maps and Views Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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