"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Government "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Government
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Government 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Government
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Government Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Government
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Government Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Government "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Government
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Government "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Government
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Government "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Government
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Government your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Government
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Government If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Government
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Government For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Government We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Government
