The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Leyland "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Leyland
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "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) Leyland We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Leyland
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Leyland People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Leyland
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Leyland Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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) Leyland
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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Leyland "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Leyland
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Leyland There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Leyland
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Leyland "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Leyland
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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Leyland 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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "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" Leyland
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Leyland 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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Leyland
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Leyland And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Leyland
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Leyland If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Leyland
