There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land 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 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim I
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I
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 people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I
