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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Donald I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Donald
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Donald "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Donald
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Donald In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Donald
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Donald "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Donald
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Donald The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Donald
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Donald The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Donald
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Donald Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Donald
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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Donald "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Donald
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Donald "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Donald
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Donald There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Donald
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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 Donald I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Donald
