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Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "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) "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) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Sedgley This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sedgley
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Sedgley Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Sedgley
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Sedgley "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 Sedgley
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Sedgley Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Sedgley
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Sedgley An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Sedgley
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Sedgley "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "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) Sedgley
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Sedgley "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Sedgley
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Sedgley Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Sedgley
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Sedgley UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Sedgley
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Sedgley "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Sedgley
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "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 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Sedgley The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Sedgley
