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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Crosby I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Crosby
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Crosby To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Crosby
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Crosby The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Crosby
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Crosby "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Crosby
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Crosby Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "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) Crosby
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Crosby Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Crosby
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Crosby In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Crosby
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Crosby The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Crosby
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Crosby "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Crosby
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Crosby "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Crosby
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "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 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Crosby The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Crosby
