"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Blackburn with Darwen Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Blackburn with Darwen
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Blackburn with Darwen Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Blackburn with Darwen
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Blackburn with Darwen The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Blackburn with Darwen
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Blackburn with Darwen 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 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Blackburn with Darwen
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Blackburn with Darwen "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Blackburn with Darwen
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Blackburn with Darwen I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Blackburn with Darwen
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Blackburn with Darwen The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Blackburn with Darwen
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "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 Blackburn with Darwen Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Blackburn with Darwen
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Blackburn with Darwen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Blackburn with Darwen
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Blackburn with Darwen 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Blackburn with Darwen
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "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 Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Blackburn with Darwen The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Blackburn with Darwen
