"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Localities The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Localities
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Localities It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Localities
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Localities "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Localities
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Localities "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Localities
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Localities Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Localities
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Localities The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 Localities May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm 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 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "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) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Localities
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Localities Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Localities
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Localities I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Localities
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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Localities Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Localities
