Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Computers and Internet "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
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-- Arthur C. Clarke Computers and Internet
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Computers and Internet Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Computers and Internet
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Computers and Internet The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Computers and Internet
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Computers and Internet "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Computers and Internet
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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) Computers and Internet Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Computers and Internet
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Computers and Internet There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Computers and Internet
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Computers and Internet Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Computers and Internet
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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Computers and Internet An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Computers and Internet
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "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) Computers and Internet I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Computers and Internet
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Computers and Internet 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 "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) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Computers and Internet The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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