If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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 Employment "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Employment
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Employment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Employment
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 knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Employment Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Employment
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Employment A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Employment
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Employment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Employment
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Employment I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Employment
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Employment The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Employment
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Employment Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Employment
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Employment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Employment
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates 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 Employment This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Employment
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Employment Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Employment
