Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Localities We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Localities
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Localities "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Localities
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Localities The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Localities "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Localities
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "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) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Localities 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
"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 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Localities If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Localities
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Localities The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Localities Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Localities
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Localities "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Localities
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Localities "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Localities
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Localities We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Localities
