The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Computers and Internet I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 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 Computers and Internet Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Computers and Internet
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Computers and Internet blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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-- Latin Proverb Computers and Internet
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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 The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Computers and Internet Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Computers and Internet
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Computers and Internet The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Computers and Internet The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Computers and Internet
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I could prove God statistically.
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
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-- Roger Babson "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Computers and Internet
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers and Internet The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Computers and Internet When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Computers and Internet
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Computers and Internet Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Computers and Internet
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Computers and Internet Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Computers and Internet
