"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Government Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Government
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Government "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Government
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Government "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Government
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Government Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Government
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Government Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Government
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Government Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Government
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Government He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Government
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Government "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Government
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Government "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) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Government
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Government "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Government
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Government "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Government
