Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Longridge "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Longridge
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Longridge If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Longridge
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Longridge "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Longridge
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Longridge Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Longridge
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Longridge He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Longridge
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Longridge Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Longridge
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Longridge War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Longridge
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Longridge "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Longridge
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Longridge Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Longridge
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Longridge Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 Longridge
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Longridge There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Longridge
