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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Fishing Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "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) Fishing
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Fishing We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Fishing
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Fishing I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Fishing
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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard What's new? Most of my wife. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Fishing The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Fishing
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Fishing "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Fishing
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 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 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Fishing We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Fishing
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Fishing The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Fishing
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Fishing You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Fishing
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Fishing "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Fishing
"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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 Fishing I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Fishing
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Fishing The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Fishing
