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"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Web Rings "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Web Rings
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Web Rings To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Web Rings
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Web Rings It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Web Rings
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-- Brendan Hills "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Web Rings "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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-- Stephen Leacock Web Rings
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Web Rings The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Web Rings
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Web Rings Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Web Rings
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Web Rings When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Web Rings
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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-- Grover Cleveland What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Web Rings
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
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"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Web Rings "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Web Rings A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Web Rings
