It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Computers and Internet "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Computers and Internet
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "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) Computers and Internet How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Computers and Internet
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Computers and Internet The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Computers and Internet
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Computers and Internet Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Computers and Internet
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Computers and Internet The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Computers and Internet
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Computers and Internet When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Computers and Internet
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Computers and Internet I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Computers and Internet
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Computers and Internet Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Computers and Internet He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Computers and Internet
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Computers and Internet
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Computers and Internet "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Such is life.
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