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-- Jerry Olson I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "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) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Vatican City "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Vatican City
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Vatican City He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Vatican City
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Vatican City If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Vatican City
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Vatican City Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Vatican City
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Vatican City
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Vatican City Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Vatican City
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Vatican City None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Vatican City
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Vatican City In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Vatican City
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Vatican City Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Vatican City
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Vatican City "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Vatican City
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Vatican City If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Vatican City
