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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous 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 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Aviation "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Aviation
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "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." Aviation There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Aviation
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Aviation Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Aviation
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Aviation As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Aviation
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Aviation Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Aviation
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Aviation 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 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Aviation
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Aviation The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Aviation
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Aviation In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "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) Aviation
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Aviation Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Aviation
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Aviation "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aviation
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Aviation I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Aviation
