Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Langho "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Langho
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "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) Langho Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Langho
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Langho Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Langho
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Langho The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Langho
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Langho "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Langho
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Langho Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 Langho
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Langho If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston 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 Langho
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Langho Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Langho
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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Langho "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Langho
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "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) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Langho 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 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Langho
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Langho May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Langho
