One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Chobham Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Chobham
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Chobham Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Chobham
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Chobham In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Chobham
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Chobham We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Chobham
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Chobham blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Chobham
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "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) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Chobham Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Chobham
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Chobham "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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Chobham
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Chobham "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Chobham
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Chobham The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Chobham
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Chobham There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Chobham
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Chobham If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder 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.
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