Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Computers and Internet Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Computers and Internet 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 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer Computers and Internet Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Computers and Internet
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Computers and Internet It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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-- G. K. Chesterton If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Robert Graves Computers and Internet Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Computers and Internet
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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-- Ernest Dimnet Computers and Internet The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Computers and Internet
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Computers and Internet It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Computers and Internet
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Computers and Internet In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Computers and Internet
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers and Internet blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Computers and Internet
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
ha If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
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-- Mike Adams Computers and Internet After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
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-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Computers and Internet
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Computers and Internet Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
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