Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Domestic I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Domestic
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Domestic It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Domestic
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Domestic "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Domestic
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Domestic Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Domestic
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Domestic We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Domestic
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Domestic blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Domestic
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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 Domestic "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Domestic
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Domestic If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Domestic
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Domestic "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Domestic
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Domestic Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Domestic
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Domestic Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Domestic
