"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Property Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Property
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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Property Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Property
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Property You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Property
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Property "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Property
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Property Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Property
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Property "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Property
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Property Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Property
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Property Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Property "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Property
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Property Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Property
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Property It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Property
