Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Computers and Internet Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Computers and Internet
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Computers and Internet If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Computers and Internet
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Computers and Internet The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 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 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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 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 Computers and Internet I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Computers and Internet
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Computers and Internet My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Computers and Internet
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Computers and Internet Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Computers and Internet
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Computers and Internet Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Computers and Internet
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Computers and Internet "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Computers and Internet
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Computers and Internet "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Computers and Internet
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Computers and Internet The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Computers and Internet
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Computers and Internet Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Computers and Internet
