They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Solihull "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Solihull
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Solihull Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Solihull
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Solihull A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Solihull
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Solihull A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "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) Solihull
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Solihull "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Solihull
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Solihull Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Solihull
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Solihull Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Solihull
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "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) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Solihull Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Solihull
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Solihull The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Solihull
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "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) Solihull Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Solihull
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Solihull "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Solihull
