Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Pages You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Personal Pages
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Personal Pages If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Personal Pages
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Personal Pages Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Personal Pages
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Personal Pages As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Personal Pages
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Personal Pages I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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 Personal Pages
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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Personal Pages "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Personal Pages
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Personal Pages "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Personal Pages
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Personal Pages "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Personal Pages
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Personal Pages Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Personal Pages
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Personal Pages "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Personal Pages
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Personal Pages Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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