"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." First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke M "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn M
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine M A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) M
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And M Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca M
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson M "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln M
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley M Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g M
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) M The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. M
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker M Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) M
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) M If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student M
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) M Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA M
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz M "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) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard M
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 M There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan M
