A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Personal Pages blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Pages
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Personal Pages Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Personal Pages "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Personal Pages
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Personal Pages Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Personal Pages In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Personal Pages
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Personal Pages "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Personal Pages
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Personal Pages "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 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Personal Pages
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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Personal Pages When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Personal Pages
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Personal Pages blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Personal Pages
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "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, Alice in Wonderland I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Personal Pages "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Personal Pages
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Personal Pages Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Personal Pages
