In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Employment "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Employment
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Employment I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Employment
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Employment "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Employment
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Employment Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Employment
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Employment Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Employment
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Employment There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Employment
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Employment I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Employment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Employment I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Employment
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Employment Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Employment
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Employment I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Employment
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Employment "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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.
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Employment
