To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words G "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. G
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer G Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making G
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken G The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 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 G
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) G Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) G
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson G Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President G
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost G I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel G
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber G "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 G
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth G Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb G
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) G Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi G
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar G "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton G
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to G A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba G
