Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Fixtures He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Fixtures
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Fixtures Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Fixtures
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Fixtures I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Fixtures
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Fixtures Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Fixtures
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Fixtures A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Fixtures
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Fixtures He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Fixtures
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Fixtures To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Fixtures
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Fixtures Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Fixtures
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Fixtures 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Fixtures
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "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) Fixtures "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Fixtures
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 Fixtures "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Fixtures
