If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Computers and Internet The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Computers and Internet
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Computers and Internet Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Computers and Internet
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Computers and Internet "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Computers and Internet
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Computers and Internet Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers and Internet
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama 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 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Computers and Internet
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Computers and Internet Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Computers and Internet
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Computers and Internet Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Computers and Internet
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Computers and Internet "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) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Computers and Internet Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Computers and Internet
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Computers and Internet The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern 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 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers and Internet If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Computers and Internet
