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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Education I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Education
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Education "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) 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 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Education
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Education Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Education
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Education
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Education
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Education Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Education "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Education
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Education Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Education
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Education
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Education "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Education Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Education
