- Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
-- Fenchurch in "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" by Douglas Adams
- Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable is always a perilous business.
-- Anon.
- He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
-- Jules Michelet (1798-1847)
- Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
-- Aristotle (384-322)
- What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- It's OK, once you get past the hard exterior.
-- Anon.
- To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-- George MacDonald
- Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
- A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
-- Ancient Proverb
- If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
-- Romans 12:18
- If anyone accepts my help who doesn't need it, that's his problem; if I refuse my help to anyone who needs it, that's my problem.
-- Anon.
- A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world.
-- Anon.
- The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- If you choose not to decide, you still have made your choice.
-- "Freewill" by Rush
- It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? --Henry David Thoreau
- 'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh before his beheading
- So little done, so much to do.
-- Alexander Graham Bell (last words)
- What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneness, and say, "This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned--and you with it, dust of the dust!" Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, "Never have I heard anything more divine?"
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
- To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
-- Anna Louise Strong
- As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
-- Seneca
- Come, let us go. Let us leave this festering hellhole. Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
-- Dirk Gently in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams
- If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care.
-- Anon.
- For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers apppear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
-- Song of Songs 2:11,12
- I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
-- Richard P Feynman
- Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
-- Dwight D Eisenhower
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
-- George Washington
- Draw in the breath of life, and as you breathe, smile.
-- Anon.
- Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
-- Manuscript K by Leonardo DiVinci
- Politicians in government should be changed regularly, like diapers, for the same reason.
-- Richard Davies
- Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. Maybe--remotely--there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W C Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
- Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it.
-- Anon.
- First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
-- Epictetus
- The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
- Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
-- Player in _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead_ by Tom Stoppard
- The easiest way to find a use for something is to throw it out.
-- Anon.
- Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
-- Anon.
- For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.
-- Song of Songs 8:6
- I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
-- Anon.
- Know yourself first, evaluate others later, and for God's sake don't follow someone else.
-- Anon.
- All that glitters has a high refractive index.
-- Anon.
- How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave or beautiful would perish.
-- Irish blessing
- Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-- Leo Tolstoy
- Johnny was a chemist's clerk
But Johnny is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
-- Anon.
- Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
-- Life's Little Instruction Book #332
- He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.
-- "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams
- Good friends are so hard to come by: may we all value them when we find them.
-- Anon.
- Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
-- John Muir
- That's love?!? --Calvin
Medically speaking. --Hobbes
Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
-- Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Waterson
- At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
-- _Meditations_ by Marcus Aurelius
- The only gift is a portion of yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What a long time I have been running after unrealities!
-- Jitoku Eki
- There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear.
-- 1 John 4:18
- I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts--because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
-- Valentine Michael Smith in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ by Robert A Heinlein
- I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
-- Anon.
- Never ask a question unless the answer makes a difference.
-- Anon.
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
-- Anon.
- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
-- Henry David Thoreau
- Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
-- Anon.
- The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heilein
- Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money--but long on hugs.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Don't walk in front of me. I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me. I may not lead.
Walk beside me. And just be my friend.
-- Albert Camus
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Emerson
- Dum spiro spero [While I breathe, I hope]
-- South Carolina's motto
- All bicycles weigh 50 pounds:
A 30-pound bicycle needs a 20-pound lock and chain.
A 40-pound bicycle needs a 10-pound lock and chain.
A 50-pound bicycle needs no lock or chain.
-- Anon.
- It is only through the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
-- Anon.
- Faith is when you believe in something that you know ain't true.
-- Anon.
- You can go wrong by being too skepical as readily as by being too trusting.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Come forth into the light of things and let nature be your teacher.
-- William Wordsworth
- If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane!
-- Jimmy Buffett
- Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
-- Max Planck
- What an annoying mad thing love is!
-- Emmanuel Schikaneder
- Be good and you will be lonesome.
-- Mark Twain
- Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
-- James Q Wilson
- The only true knowledge, consists in knowing, that we know nothing,
-- Socrates
- Dawn: the time when people of reason go to bed.
-- Anon.
- A wise man is more powerful than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than a man of might.
-- Proverbs 24:5
- To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
-- Eva Young
- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
-- Anon.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Emerson
- One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Smith & Wesson: The ultimate point & click user interface.
-- Anon.
- You know it's going to be a bad day when you see a 60 Minutes news team waiting in your office.
-- Anon.
- We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
-- Aristotle
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost
- There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Many open minds should be closed for repairs.
-- Toledo Blade
- Q: What's an IBM man-year?
A: 730 people trying to get a project done before noon.
-- Anon.
- Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.
-- Anon.
- I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies." So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said "compact cars"...
-- Steven Wright
- All you need is a can of shaving cream, some liquid nitrogen, and a good imagination.
-- Anon.
- If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost.
-- Anon.
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
-- O W Holmes
- It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
-- Anon.
- A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
-- Anon.
- There aren't enough days in the weekend.
-- Steven Wright
- Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
-- Lyndon B Johnson
- To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy--and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
-- Lord Byron
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana
- The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin
- Only a sadistic scoundrel--or a fool--tells the bald truth on social occasions.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.
- Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
- The city of happiness is in the state of mind.
- There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
-- Mark Twain
- Courtois's Rule: If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost, then paid for it and not liked it.
- Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough.
-- Joe Lewis
- Never give up, but know when to quit.
- This above all: to thine own self be true.
-- Polonius in _Hamlet_ by William Shakespeare
- In a world full of people we are alone.
- Don't get even, get odd!
- A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- If we don't get some money in our bank account soon, we'll be arrested for impersonating the government.
- Be courteous with all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
-- George Washington
- At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
- Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, can not keep it from themselves.
-- Irish blessing
- Who loves not women, wine and song,
Remains a fool his whole life long.
-- Martin Luther
- Obi-Wan has taught you well.
-- Darth Vader in "Return of the Jedi"
- Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.
- He who knows only one religion knows none.
-- Max Müller
- The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln
- This wallpaper is dreadful. One of us has simply got to go.
-- Oscar Wilde (his last words)
- Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
-- Henry J Kaiser
- Kwitchyerbellyakin
-- Irish saying
- Above all things, reverence yourself.
- A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Nothing's more expensive than a free computer.
-- Gerry Laurence
- Control your emotion or it will control you.
-- Chinese adage
- Going to the showers is the best part of the game.
-- Jubal in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ by Robert A Heinlein
- Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let them down.
- Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes.
- A budget is a planned method of worrying.
- When a resolute fellow steps up to that great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find that the beard comes off in his hand, that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.
- The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
-- Of the Training of Children by Plutarch
- Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
-- Richard Hooker
- Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
-- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensible;
- And no man is useless while he has a friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Don't forget a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
- The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.
- Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Never confuse motion with action.
- Before the world finds a place for you, find a place for yourself in the world.
- Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part.
- First you must learn to control your /self/. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
-- Valentine Michael Smith in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ by Robert A Heinlein
- The "Enough Already" Law: The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
- But isn't hate just scorned love?
- Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!
-- The Tortoise's Little Green Book by Robert J Ringer
- Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving; to reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
-- O W Holmes
- True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
- --Ben Jonson
- I don't know about you, but my parents are always right.
- When a person is willing and eager, God joins in.
- When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
- "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Jubal in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ by Robert A Heinlein
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are drempt of in your philosophy.
-- Hamlet Act I Scene V
- There's a sucker born every minute.
-- P T Barnum
- If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.
- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
-- "Oscariana" by Oscar Wilde
- Check to see if you any words out.
- Go climb a gravity well.
- The new Congressmen say they're going to turn the government around. I hope I don't get run over again.
- Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid perfection.
- Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it.
- Unix *is* user friendly. It's just picky about its friends.
- Wasting time is an important part of living.
- Since emotions are few and reasons many, the behavior or a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person can.
-- Robot Gistard by Issac Asimov
- Don't overlook life's small joys while searching for the big ones.
- Those who are willing to face the music may someday lead the band.
- Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
-- Mark Twain
- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.
- Who's more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?
- Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and commits suicide.
- When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
- Add life to your years, don't worry about adding years to your life.
- A friend loves at all times. --Proverbs 17:17
- Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
-- "Essays" Bk 1, Ch 39 by Michel Eyquen Montaigne
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-- Socrates
- If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
-- Jonson
- The manner in which it is given is often worth more than the gift.
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-- Tom J Connelly
- Never precede any demo by a comment more predictive than "Watch this!".
- Wisdom: to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.
- That which does not kill you will only make you stronger.
-- Nietzsche
- Size matters not.
-- Yoda in "Empire Strikes Back"
- Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.
- An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
- To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- May evil spirits be confused on the way to your door.
-- George Carlin
- If you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
- I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
- A man may have no religion, and yet be moral.
- Humor is a reminder that no matter how high a throne one sits on, one is sitting on one's butt.
- When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on, and swing!
- Never allow school to interfere with your education.
-- Mark Twain
- God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.
-- Albert Einstein
- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye
- Television, a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs
- The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them.
- I am a man
More sinned against than sinning.
-- King Lear in King Lear Act III Sc II li 60 Lear
- Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Adams
- A crisis is when you can't say "Let's forget the whole thing."
- God grant you your quota of smiles.
-- Yeste in the _Princess Bride_ by William Goldman
- You know it's going to be a bad day when your twin brother forgot your birthday.
- Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last.
-- Scott Michael Durski
- Never cut what can be untied.
-- Joseph Joubert
- Watson's Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.
- The lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math.
- I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
-- Linus van Pelt
- If you want to get something done, give it to a busy person.
- I am made from the dust of the stars and the oceans flow in my veins.
-- Rush
- Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
- A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- Bumper sticker on the stealth bomber: "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THEN WE WASTED 50 BILLION BUCKS."
- It's not what you tell people, it's what you show them.
- Let your work brag about you.
- Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
- In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.
-- Budda
- When friends offer to help, let them.
- Trust can be a powerful weapon.
- Neutrinos have bad breadth.
- You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.
- Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.
- The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
- Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Beware of food products whose ingredients are in quotation marks.
- Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
- Learn from the past but don't dwell on it.
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
-- Stevenson
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
-- Thoreau
- No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and he's not the same man.
-- Heraclitas
- An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.
- It's amazing what you can do when someone has faith in you.
- The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To obtain maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big mistake.
- Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
- Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
- I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't seem to work.
- You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
-- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlein
- But love is many things, none of them logical.
-- _The Princess Bride_ by William Goldman
- The problem with political jokes is that they get elected.
- The only beneficial thing in smoking is that it repels gnats and mosquitoes, which only proves that you don't have to be big to be smart.
- Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing--and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
- Klein bottle for rent--inquire within.
- Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go.
- Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.
- There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
- Pour on; I will endure.
In such a night as this!
-- King Lear in "King Lear" Act III Sc IV li 60 by William Shakespeare
- My physics teacher points to a blank chalk board and explains things.
-- Chris Kelly about Prof Erich Kunhardt
- If you have a difficult task, give it to someone lazy, that person will find an easier way to do it.
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but this is because fiction is obliged to stick to probability; truth is not.
- Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.
- Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D H Lawrence
- It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
-- Aesop
- Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain
- Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
-- Life's Little Instruction Book
- Never assume, seldom deny, always distinguish.
-- Anon
- A moment is a lifetime.....but only for a moment.
- Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited 'til he could do so well that no one could find fault with it.
- Study reveals that 5 out of 4 Americans have trouble with fractions.
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