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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Chats and Forums blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Chats and Forums
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Chats and Forums Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Chats and Forums
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Chats and Forums "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) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Chats and Forums
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Chats and Forums The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado 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 Chats and Forums
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Chats and Forums Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Chats and Forums
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Chats and Forums The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Chats and Forums
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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 Chats and Forums If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Chats and Forums
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Chats and Forums Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Chats and Forums
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Chats and Forums "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Chats and Forums
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Chats and Forums "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Chats and Forums
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Chats and Forums The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Chats and Forums
