If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "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) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Society and Culture
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "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) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Society and Culture
"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) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Society and Culture
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Society and Culture "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Society and Culture
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Society and Culture
