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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Bloxwich "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Bloxwich
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Bloxwich "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Bloxwich
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Bloxwich A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Bloxwich
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "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) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bloxwich Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Bloxwich
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Bloxwich "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Bloxwich
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Bloxwich We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Bloxwich
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Bloxwich Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Bloxwich
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Bloxwich "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Bloxwich
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Bloxwich A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Bloxwich
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Bloxwich Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Bloxwich
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Bloxwich Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Bloxwich
