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Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Religion And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Religion
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Religion What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Religion "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Religion
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Religion Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion
"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) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Religion
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Religion The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Religion
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Religion "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Religion
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Religion Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Religion
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Religion "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Religion
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Religion
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Religion The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Religion
