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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Maplesteads, The If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Maplesteads, The
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Maplesteads, The Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Maplesteads, The
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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Maplesteads, The "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Maplesteads, The
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Maplesteads, The The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maplesteads, The
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Maplesteads, The What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Maplesteads, The
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Maplesteads, The Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Maplesteads, The
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "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 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Maplesteads, The I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Maplesteads, The
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Maplesteads, The Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Maplesteads, The
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Maplesteads, The blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Maplesteads, The
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Maplesteads, The It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Maplesteads, The
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Maplesteads, The Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Man and wife make one fool. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Maplesteads, The
