"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Computers and Internet I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Computers and Internet
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Computers and Internet "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Computers and Internet
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Computers and Internet Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Computers and Internet
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Computers and Internet If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Computers and Internet
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Computers and Internet Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Computers and Internet
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Computers and Internet Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "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) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Computers and Internet
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Computers and Internet It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Computers and Internet
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Computers and Internet blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Computers and Internet
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Computers and Internet "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Computers and Internet
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Computers and Internet "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Computers and Internet
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Computers and Internet Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Computers and Internet
