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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Gotham Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Gotham
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Gotham One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Gotham
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Gotham If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Gotham
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gotham To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Gotham
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Gotham "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Gotham
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Gotham Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Gotham
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Gotham "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Gotham
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Gotham Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Gotham
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Gotham The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Gotham
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gotham Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Gotham
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Gotham Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Gotham
