I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Health When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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) Health Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Health
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Health Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Health
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Health "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "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) Health
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Health "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Health
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Health Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Health
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Health All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Health
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Health If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Health I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Health
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Health Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Health
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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the fl "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Health "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Health
