Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Computers and Internet
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Computers and Internet "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 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers and Internet
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Computers and Internet Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers and Internet
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Computers and Internet It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Computers and Internet
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Computers and Internet Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Computers and Internet
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Computers and Internet A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Computers and Internet
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Computers and Internet
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Computers and Internet
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Computers and Internet It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Computers and Internet
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Computers and Internet A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Computers and Internet
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Computers and Internet Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
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