"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Chipperfield "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Chipperfield
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Chipperfield The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Chipperfield
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Chipperfield "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Chipperfield
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) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Chipperfield The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Chipperfield
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 Chipperfield There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Chipperfield
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Chipperfield "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chipperfield
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Chipperfield "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Chipperfield
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Chipperfield There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Chipperfield
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Chipperfield Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Chipperfield
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Chipperfield Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Chipperfield
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Chipperfield blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Chipperfield
