Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Computers and Internet "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
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-- August Strindberg blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
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 We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Computers and Internet I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Computers and Internet
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Computers and Internet Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Computers and Internet
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Computers and Internet No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 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 Computers and Internet
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 Computers and Internet Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Computers and Internet
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Computers and Internet "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Computers and Internet
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Computers and Internet We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Computers and Internet
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Computers and Internet He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Computers and Internet
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Computers and Internet How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Computers and Internet
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "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) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Computers and Internet "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Computers and Internet
