Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Organisations "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Organisations
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Organisations "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Organisations
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Organisations "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Organisations
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organisations The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Organisations
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Organisations "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Organisations
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Organisations blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Organisations
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Organisations Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "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) Organisations
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Organisations Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Organisations
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Organisations "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Organisations
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Organisations 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Organisations
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "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) Organisations I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
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