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Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Arts and Entertainment
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau 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 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 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. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Arts and Entertainment
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Arts and Entertainment The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Arts and Entertainment
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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
ha For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Arts and Entertainment I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky 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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Arts and Entertainment
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Arts and Entertainment 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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson 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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Arts and Entertainment "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment
"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 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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
