Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Cricket Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Cricket
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Cricket "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Cricket
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Cricket Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Cricket
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Cricket What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Cricket
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Cricket "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Cricket
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Cricket History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Cricket
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Anyway, 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,
ign The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Cricket "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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Cricket
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Cricket blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Cricket
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Cricket 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 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Cricket
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Cricket "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Cricket
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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.
Cricket "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cricket
