"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Arts and Entertainment "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Arts and Entertainment
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Arts and Entertainment You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Arts and Entertainment
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Arts and Entertainment I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "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) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Arts and Entertainment
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Arts and Entertainment "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Arts and Entertainment The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Arts and Entertainment Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Arts and Entertainment Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Arts and Entertainment
