Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Man and wife make one fool. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf N Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) N
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone N The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST N
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi N Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) N
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan N "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous N
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh N If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 N
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. N "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor N
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel N The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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 N
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen N The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken N
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin N Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia N
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur N Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha N
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "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) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry N blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson N
