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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Didcot When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Didcot
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Didcot When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Didcot
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Didcot One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Didcot
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Didcot There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Didcot
My other wife is beautiful. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Didcot Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Didcot
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Didcot If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Didcot
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "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' Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Didcot He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Didcot
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Didcot If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Didcot
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Didcot "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Didcot
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Didcot the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Didcot
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Didcot A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Didcot
