I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Computers and Internet
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Computers and Internet "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Computers and Internet
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben 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 Computers and Internet "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Computers and Internet
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Computers and Internet "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Computers and Internet
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Computers and Internet A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Computers and Internet
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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Computers and Internet There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Computers and Internet
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Computers and Internet Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Computers and Internet
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Computers and Internet
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Computers and Internet Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Computers and Internet
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Computers and Internet "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Computers and Internet
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "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) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Computers and Internet Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Computers and Internet
