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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Training Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Training
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Training Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Training
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 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Training Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Training
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Training In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Training
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "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 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 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Training "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Training
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Training "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Training
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Training Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Training
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Training Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Training
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Training "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Training
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Training Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Training
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Training Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Training
