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"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Cricket Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Cricket
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Cricket "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Cricket
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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Cricket Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Cricket
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Cricket 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Cricket
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Cricket 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 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "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 Cricket Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Cricket
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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Cricket It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Cricket
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) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Cricket
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Cricket The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Cricket
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Cricket The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Cricket
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 Cricket Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Cricket
