No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Addington, Henry "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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 Addington, Henry
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Addington, Henry And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Addington, Henry
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Addington, Henry Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Addington, Henry
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Addington, Henry Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Addington, Henry
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Addington, Henry "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Addington, Henry
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Addington, Henry Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Addington, Henry
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "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) Addington, Henry Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "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 Addington, Henry
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Addington, Henry Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Addington, Henry
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Addington, Henry Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Addington, Henry
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Addington, Henry Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Addington, Henry
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Addington, Henry The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Addington, Henry
