The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Barnt Green "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Barnt Green
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Barnt Green If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Barnt Green
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Barnt Green Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Barnt Green
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Barnt Green "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Barnt Green
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Barnt Green "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Barnt Green
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Barnt Green Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry ... 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
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"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) 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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Barnt Green Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Barnt Green
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Barnt Green "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Barnt Green
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Barnt Green "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Barnt Green
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Barnt Green Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Barnt Green
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Barnt Green I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Barnt Green
