Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Rabbits Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois 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 Rabbits
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Rabbits Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Rabbits
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Rabbits "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "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) 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 Rabbits
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Rabbits Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rabbits
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Rabbits "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Rabbits
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Rabbits And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Rabbits
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 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 Rabbits Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Rabbits
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Rabbits "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) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Rabbits
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Rabbits What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Rabbits
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Rabbits That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rabbits
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Rabbits Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Rabbits
