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"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Denton "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Denton
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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." ( "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Denton Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "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) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Denton
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Denton I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Denton
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "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) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Denton "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Denton
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Denton "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Denton
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Denton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Denton
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Denton Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Denton
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Denton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Denton
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Denton A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Denton
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Denton The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Denton
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Denton If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan 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 Denton
