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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Photography "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Photography
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Photography When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Photography
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Photography "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Photography
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Photography We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Photography
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Photography The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Photography
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Photography Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Photography
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Photography He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Photography
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Photography "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Photography
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Photography
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Photography All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Photography
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Photography "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Photography
