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Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Badsey "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Badsey
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Badsey "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Badsey
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Badsey A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Badsey
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Badsey We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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' Badsey
"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 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Badsey Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Badsey
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Badsey There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Badsey
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Badsey "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Badsey
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl What's new? Most of my wife. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Badsey Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Badsey
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Badsey Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Badsey
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Badsey Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Badsey
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Badsey Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Badsey
