Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Eastham "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Eastham
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "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) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Eastham The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Eastham
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g 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 Eastham Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Eastham
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Eastham Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Eastham
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Eastham In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Eastham
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Eastham It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Eastham
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Eastham "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Eastham
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Eastham In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Eastham
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Eastham "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) 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." ( "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eastham
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eastham "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Eastham
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Eastham Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Eastham
