But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 Oxshott When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Oxshott Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Oxshott
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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Oxshott The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Oxshott
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Oxshott All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Oxshott
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Oxshott Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Oxshott
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Oxshott Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Oxshott "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Oxshott
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Oxshott Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Oxshott
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Oxshott "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Oxshott
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Oxshott Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Oxshott
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Oxshott Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Oxshott
