Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Wymeswold Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Wymeswold
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky 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 Wymeswold He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wymeswold
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Wymeswold You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Wymeswold
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Wymeswold The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Wymeswold
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Wymeswold I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wymeswold
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Wymeswold Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "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) Wymeswold
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Wymeswold Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Wymeswold
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Wymeswold I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Wymeswold
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Wymeswold 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." ( "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Wymeswold
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wymeswold Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Wymeswold
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Wymeswold There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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
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