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"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Directories You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Directories
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Directories "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Directories
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Directories Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Directories
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Directories I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Directories
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 man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directories "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Directories
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.
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Directories All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Directories
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Directories "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Directories
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Directories Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Directories
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Directories The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Directories
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directories I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Directories
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Directories 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.
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "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) Directories
