"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Broadmayne Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Broadmayne
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Broadmayne There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Broadmayne
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Broadmayne "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Broadmayne
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Broadmayne "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Broadmayne
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Broadmayne 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Broadmayne
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Broadmayne Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Broadmayne
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Broadmayne The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Broadmayne
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Broadmayne If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Broadmayne
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Broadmayne We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Broadmayne
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Broadmayne A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Broadmayne
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Broadmayne Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Broadmayne
