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"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Little Houghton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man and wife make one fool. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Little Houghton
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Little Houghton Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Little Houghton
May you never leave your marriage alive. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Little Houghton The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Little Houghton
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Little Houghton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Little Houghton
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Little Houghton "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Little Houghton
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Little Houghton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Little Houghton
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Little Houghton "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "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) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Little Houghton
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Little Houghton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Little Houghton
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol 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 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Little Houghton Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Little Houghton
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Little Houghton "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Little Houghton
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Little Houghton "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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