Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Education Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Education I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Education
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 Education Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Education
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 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 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Education Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Education
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Education "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Education
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Education Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Education
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Education "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Education
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Education
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Education If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Education
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Education "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Education
