If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Politics "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Politics
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Politics We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Politics
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Politics "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Politics
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Politics Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Politics
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie What's new? Most of my wife. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Politics "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Politics
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Politics Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Politics
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Politics Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Politics
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Politics Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 Politics
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Politics "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Politics
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Politics Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Politics
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Politics I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Politics
