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"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Computers and Internet Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Computers and Internet
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Computers and Internet "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Computers and Internet
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Computers and Internet "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Computers and Internet
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Computers and Internet He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Computers and Internet
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Computers and Internet As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Computers and Internet
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Computers and Internet
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Computers and Internet Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Computers and Internet
"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." "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Computers and Internet Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Computers and Internet
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Computers and Internet I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Computers and Internet
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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Computers and Internet Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Computers and Internet
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Computers and Internet In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Computers and Internet
