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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "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) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Llanishen I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Llanishen
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Llanishen We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "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) Llanishen
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Llanishen The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Llanishen
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Llanishen "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Llanishen
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Llanishen Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Llanishen
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "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 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Llanishen Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Llanishen
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Llanishen 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Llanishen "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "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) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst 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.
-- 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 Llanishen Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Llanishen
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Llanishen The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Llanishen
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Llanishen You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Llanishen
