A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "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) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Computers and Internet "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Computers and Internet
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Computers and Internet Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Computers and Internet The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Computers and Internet
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Computers and Internet
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Computers and Internet Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Computers and Internet
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Computers and Internet "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Computers and Internet
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Computers and Internet Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Computers and Internet
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers and Internet "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) 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Computers and Internet Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Computers and Internet
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot 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 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Computers and Internet "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Computers and Internet
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Computers and Internet "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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