"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous G Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." G Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud G
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins G Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous G
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning 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 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer G Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying G
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 G "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf G
"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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) G He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken G
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo G As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf G
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar G Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) G
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson G "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh G
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone G Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor G
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett G People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 G
