This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Gilwern Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Gilwern
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Gilwern There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Gilwern
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Gilwern Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Gilwern
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Gilwern "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Gilwern
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Gilwern The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Gilwern
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Gilwern "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Gilwern
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Gilwern The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Gilwern
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Gilwern We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Gilwern
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Gilwern The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Gilwern
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Gilwern To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Gilwern
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Gilwern "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Gilwern
