Topic 23 of 32: Quote of the day
Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (19:29) |
wer (wer)
321 responses total.
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Response 1 of 321: wer (wer) * Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (19:33) * 5 lines
"I want to find out who this
FICA guy is and how come he's
taking so much of my money."
--Nick Kypreos
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Response 2 of 321: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (19:43) * 3 lines
oops.
I guess I posted my 'thought' in the wrong place...
perhaps it shoulda gone here.
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Response 3 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (20:17) * 1 lines
it's perfectly swell just where it is...
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Response 4 of 321: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr 15, 1999 (20:46) * 1 lines
thank you!
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Response 5 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Apr 16, 1999 (02:10) * 5 lines
"Smoking kills. If you're killed,
you've lost a very important part
of your life."
--Brooke Shields
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Response 6 of 321: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Apr 16, 1999 (13:09) * 4 lines
did she really say that???
When??
Where???
At what age????
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Response 7 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Apr 16, 1999 (13:19) * 2 lines
not sure when, but she was attempting to demonstrate why she should
become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign
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Response 8 of 321: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Apr 16, 1999 (13:20) * 1 lines
and she didn't get the job, I hope.
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Response 9 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Apr 16, 1999 (13:32) * 1 lines
don't know that, either...
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Response 10 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Apr 17, 1999 (01:27) * 6 lines
"A cow may be drained dry; and if the Chancellors of the Exchequer
persist in meeting every deficiency that occurs by taxing the
brewing and distilling industries, they will inevitably kill the
cow that lays the golden milk."
--Sir Frederick Milner
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Response 11 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, May 12, 1999 (19:28) * 6 lines
"I have a documented case of one boy [traveling] 35 days
across Texas with a chicken. Everyone wants to know why
the boy came home. The chicken was worn out. A chicken
can take only so much travel."
--H. Ross Perot
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Response 12 of 321: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Thu, May 13, 1999 (06:07) * 1 lines
"A Boy's Best Friend!" - Take that, Lassie!
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Response 13 of 321: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, May 13, 1999 (12:50) * 1 lines
Hmmm...
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Response 14 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, May 13, 1999 (21:56) * 7 lines
Alborg, Denmark -- This region is in the midst of a drought so severe
that officials are urging everyone to sacrifice their modesty -- by
showering with a friend!
"We've all seen naked people of both sexes, so let's do the right thing
and bathe together -- because every drop of water counts," said conservation
boss Ulrik Topgaard.
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Response 15 of 321: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, May 14, 1999 (17:47) * 1 lines
wonder if their birth rates will jump up in 9 months??
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Response 16 of 321: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, May 14, 1999 (23:41) * 1 lines
*shrug*
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Response 17 of 321: Paul Terry Walhus (springnet) * Mon, Jan 31, 2000 (23:58) * 4 lines
I had forgotten all about this conference!
Today!
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Response 18 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 1, 2000 (23:04) * 17 lines
Hey! I get the quote du jour ...shall I post them when I get them?
Your quotes for February 1, 2000 are:
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
-- Steven Wright
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Response 19 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 2, 2000 (13:29) * 15 lines
Your quotes for February 2, 2000 are:
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
-- Vince Lombardi
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a
longer shelf life."
-- Frank Zappa
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Response 20 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 2, 2000 (15:27) * 7 lines
From TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU
Never wear a backward baseball cap to
an interview unless applying for the job
of umpire.
-Dan Zevin
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Response 21 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 3, 2000 (15:32) * 22 lines
Your quotes for February 3, 2000 are:
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-- Walt Disney
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-- Isaac Asimov
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane
and have one's doubts."
-- G. B. Burgin
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TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU
*
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus,
"one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
-- Mark Twain
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Response 22 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 4, 2000 (21:29) * 26 lines
Your quotes for February 4, 2000 are:
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called
an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are
sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
-- Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal."
-- Henry Ford
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
-- Niels Bohr
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TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU
One of the Ten Commandments for Technicians:
(1) Beware the lightening that lurketh in the undischarged
capacitor, lest it cause thee to bounce upon thy buttocks
in a most untechnician-like manner.
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Response 23 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Feb 5, 2000 (11:40) * 11 lines
Your quotes for February 5, 2000 are:
"Wit is educated insolence."
-- Aristotle
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
-- Gore Vidal
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
-- Plutarch
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Response 24 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 6, 2000 (15:51) * 16 lines
Your quotes for February 6, 2000 are:
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
-- Warren Zevon
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is
truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this
fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by
loading honors on your head."
--Jean Cocteau
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Response 25 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Feb 7, 2000 (21:16) * 14 lines
Your quotes for February 7, 2000 are:
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any
man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"I would have made a good Pope."
-- Richard M. Nixon
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
-- H. H. Munro
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Response 26 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 8, 2000 (14:19) * 11 lines
Your quotes for February 8, 2000 are:
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."
-- Samuel Palmer
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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Response 27 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (11:57) * 9 lines
TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU
* His face looked like an ice sculpture.
Not one of those pretty ones in the middle
of a cruise ship buffet, but the kind they do in
a contest with a chainsaw --
and it had been out in the heat too long.
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Response 28 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 9, 2000 (14:43) * 12 lines
Your quotes for February 9, 2000 are:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Albert Einstein
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."
-- William Jennings Bryan
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
-- Oscar Wilde
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Response 29 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 10, 2000 (15:32) * 12 lines
Your quotes for February 10, 2000 are:
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
-- Goethe
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
-- Mae West
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the
other bastard die for his."
-- General George Patton
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Response 30 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (14:26) * 1 lines
See my posting on preoccupation - I could do with some words, let alone ideas, although I did find some nice cockney ones when I was looking for something else (see travel/england)
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Response 31 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (16:27) * 7 lines
Your wish is my command (thank you, Lucie!):
One day at a time is enough.
Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone.
Do not be troubled about the future, for it has not come.
Live in the present, make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
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Response 32 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (16:41) * 12 lines
Your quotes for February 11, 2000 are:
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
-- Katherine Cebrian
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."
-- Steven Wright
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Response 33 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (17:00) * 4 lines
Reactions:
nope
nope
I like that one
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Response 34 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (17:07) * 11 lines
Yup! Agreed.
If you see the horses running toward the cliff,
you want to disengage the stage coach.
-Dean Barkley
Commenting on the possibility of
leaving the Reform Party along with
Jesse 'Whatever' Ventura
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Response 35 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (17:16) * 1 lines
Naw, I'm not giving up on the thesis yet!
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Response 36 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (17:23) * 1 lines
That's good news. After all, this is the endpoint of your degree, not the beginning. Thou shalt not fail...we want to cry "Huzzah" and good things like that for you!
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Response 37 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (17:43) * 1 lines
Thanks, it's been a tough week.
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Response 38 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 11, 2000 (19:58) * 1 lines
*Hugs* of support and commiseration... Just pop in for a chat anytime you are sagging at the reins. We shall buoy you when you need us to be there!
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Response 39 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (10:03) * 1 lines
*hugs* back. I appreciate that.
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Response 40 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (17:19) * 13 lines
Quotes for February 12, 2000 are:
"The great dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of
true liberty."
-- James Madison
"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. "
-- Oliver Herford
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Response 41 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (14:43) * 1 lines
The last one's certainly true of my professor (and me)!!!
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Response 42 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (16:04) * 15 lines
Aren't they all??? *lol*
Quotes for February 13, 2000 are:
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that
get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."
-- Lily Tomlin
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
-- Hanlon's Razor (from Murphy's Laws)
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is
not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
--William Jennings Bryan
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Response 43 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sun, Feb 13, 2000 (17:08) * 1 lines
Yeah, go with the last one. (see my earlier comments somewhere!)
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Response 44 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 15, 2000 (13:06) * 13 lines
Quotes for February 15, 2000 are:
"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"
-- Dick Cavett
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and
cravenly afraid."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the
victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
--Samuel Butler
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Response 45 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (13:22) * 27 lines
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should
also have days when you allow what is already in you to
swell up and touch everything. If you never let that
happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin
to rattle around inside of you.
-E. L. Konigsburg, Author of books for children
from Kevin Eikenberry's Power Quotes
as reported on a net bulletin board
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"The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and
the characteristic result is religious warfare."
-- Michael Crichton, The Lost World
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the
point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no
evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our
desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc."
-- Julian Huxley, Religion without Revelation
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Response 46 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:36) * 4 lines
From an Auschwitz survivor:
They say time is a great healer. I am not sure about that. What time does give you is perspective. that I spend much of my time working for better understanding between religious groups, and fighting racism as hard as I can, is partly because I know that you can only be safe and secure in a cosiety that practices tolerance, cherishes harmony and celebrates difference.
(from Chasing Shadows by Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn)
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Response 47 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 17, 2000 (17:46) * 22 lines
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while
bad people will find a way around the laws."
-- Plato
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But
in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
-- Paul Dirac
TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU
We must believe in luck.
How else can we explain
the success of those we don't like?
-Jean Cocteau
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Response 48 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 18, 2000 (15:43) * 10 lines
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
-- Mae West
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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Response 49 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Feb 19, 2000 (13:28) * 11 lines
Your quotes for February 19, 2000 are:
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
-- Emile Zola
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
-- Groucho Marx
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Response 50 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 20, 2000 (17:01) * 10 lines
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can
write faster than anybody who can write better."
-- A. J. Liebling
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
-- H. G. Wells
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
-- Voltaire
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Response 51 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Feb 21, 2000 (14:19) * 11 lines
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
-- Bertrand Russell
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy
something." -- Jackie Mason
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read."
-- Frank Zappa
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Response 52 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (13:51) * 13 lines
"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's
worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"
-- Woody Allen
"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
-- Ogden Nash
"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."
-- Jonathan Winters
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Response 53 of 321: Alexander (aschuth) * Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (14:52) * 6 lines
* "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
can't talk for people who can't read."
-- Frank Zappa
Question: Who said, and where, that "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture!"
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Response 54 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (16:13) * 1 lines
Don't know, but it is great...I'll ask John...!
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Response 55 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (18:13) * 94 lines
I asked John. It was a trick question, was it not?! He, ever the patient scholar gave me the complete answer. Now, apologize!
From a website maintained by Alan P. Scott:
The original quote was 'Talking about music is like dancing about
architecture.' No one really seems to know who said it first, and when. It
has been attributed to Frank Zappa, Steve Martin and a host of others. Here
is a listing of attributions of the quote and a common variant, which starts
'Dancing...' instead of 'Talking...':
Laurie Anderson.
Laurie Anderson is the most frequent attribution. That's where I saw the
quote first myself, in her video Home of the Brave (Warner, 1986). She also
said "How about a square dance?" as a riposte, which I think is pretty
funny.
However, that attribution is incorrect. She is not the originator of the
quote, nor does she pretend to be. Ponty Lox, an email correspondent,
kindly informed me on May 30, 1998 that in Mark Russell's book Out of
Character (Bantam, January 1997), Anderson attributes this quote to Steve
Martin. This was enough to get me to pull the quote from my section on
Laurie Anderson's quotes.
Anderson herself is quite clear that Steve Martin said it; Thornley Jobe,
another kind correspondent, sent me a link to an online copy of the
listeners' mail section of National Public Radio's Morning Edition for
January 14, 2000, in which they speak with Anderson herself and she confirms
this. And, though not by name, the NPR commentator actually mentions this
page!
While I have no trouble believing that Anderson heard it from Martin, and
also that Martin's certainly capable of coming up with something this witty,
I'm still not sure I believe she's correct about its ultimate origin. Other
citations insist that this quote has been around longer than Martin's
career. I'd like to hear what Martin says about it.
Anyway, though it may seem a moot point now, here's the rest of the list I
compiled in '96:
Frank Zappa - next most common; still too many to count, though.
William S. Burroughs, at least twice, plus one maybe ("A certain William" on
one Website that I didn't record).
Steve Martin - three times, once by Laurie Anderson (see above).
Elvis Costello - twice, but tentatively to "Frank Zappa" on one of the same
pages.
Charles Mingus - twice, but repeated many times on one, a music Web site
(http://www.popi.com/).
Nick Lowe - once.
Thelonius Monk - twice in Usenet posts, but both times without certainty.
Martin Mull - once.
Miles Davis - once.
George Carlin - once.
Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) - once.
W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, TV music composer (from Burlingame, Jon, "TV's Biggest
Hits...") - once, and probably a real latecomer.
John Cage, from a Usenet post archived at
http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/silence/text/silence1003.txt (thanks to
Ponty for pointing this one out).
One guy attributes the quote to
"L. Anderson/S.Martin/F.Zappa/E.Costello?", which at least acknowledges the
uncertainty.
Then there's a variant version,
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
At one point the Lexmark company maintained a quote server
(http://www.lexmark.com/) which attributed this version of the quote to
"Anonymous," a big help.
Howard Shih "paraphrases" the above variant as being from Laurie Anderson.
On the other hand, this variant is attributed to Frank Zappa by this site,
several Usenet posts on rec.music.movies, and a site at Carnegie-Mellon
which I don't feel like keying in...and to Elvis Costello by the band
Gherkin, and by a couple of other Usenet cites.
This variant is also attributed to "Thelonious Monk" [sic] by a Usenet .sig
belonging to alek@best.com.
copyright 1999, Alan P. Scott
______________________________________________________
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Response 56 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (11:35) * 14 lines
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore
like an idiot."
-- Steven Wright
"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change
color and fall from the trees."
-- David Letterman
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Response 57 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (15:15) * 6 lines
No great advance has ever been made
in science, politics, or religion,
without controversy.
-Lyman Beecher
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Response 58 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 24, 2000 (14:21) * 16 lines
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia."
-- Charles Schultz
"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."
-- Flip Wilson
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply
because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want
to meet them."
-- H. L. Mencken
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes
because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
-Dolly Parton
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Response 59 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 24, 2000 (14:28) * 0 lines
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Response 61 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Feb 24, 2000 (20:37) * 2 lines
Oops. Sorry
--Marcia
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Response 62 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 25, 2000 (13:58) * 14 lines
"You always pass failure on the way to success."
--Mickey Rooney
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us
as equals."
-- Winston Churchill
"Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
--Mark Twain
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to
begin with, that it's compounding a felony."
-- Robert Benchley
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Response 63 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Feb 25, 2000 (14:40) * 6 lines
TAMU.EDU
What the country needs
is dirtier fingernails
and cleaner minds.
-Will Rogers
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Response 64 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Feb 26, 2000 (13:59) * 17 lines
"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more
wonderful to miss it."
-- Mark Twain
"Living in a vacuum sucks."
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff
"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
-- Henry Havelock Ellis
"Out of every fruition of sucess, no matter what, comes forth
something to make a new effort necessary."
-- Walt Whitman
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Response 65 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (20:57) * 12 lines
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to
have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my
face on their television screens."
-- Dwight David Eisenhower
"All the world's a cage."
-- Jeanne Phillips
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
-- Former Vice President Dan Quayle
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Response 66 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (11:56) * 0 lines
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Response 67 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (13:21) * 3 lines
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
--Napolean Bonaparte
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Response 68 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (14:44) * 15 lines
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking
confess the secrets of the heart."
-- Saint Jerome
"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by
doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you
amount to."
-- Goethe
"D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've
had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it,
ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children."
-- Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 69 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (14:18) * 16 lines
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of
fact."
-- Mark Twain
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read."
-- Groucho Marx
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any
opinions at all."
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Benjamin Franklin
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 70 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 2, 2000 (19:00) * 10 lines
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-- Robert Frost
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 71 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 3, 2000 (18:01) * 12 lines
"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great
personal cost."
-- William Carlos Williams
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a
man's last romance."
-- Oscar Wilde
" All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by
the government in less than a second."
--Jim Fiebig
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 72 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Mar 4, 2000 (20:22) * 14 lines
"Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you."
-- Anon.
"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what
unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few
months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."
-- Kathleen Norris
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
-- Tobias Wolffe
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 73 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 5, 2000 (16:14) * 20 lines
"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have
no standard by which to judge it."
-Carl R. Rogers
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
-Sophocles
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."
-Bumper Sticker
"Since I've become a celebrity, when I bore people, they assume it's their
fault."
-Henry Kissinger
"The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you."
-Lady Astor
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 74 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 6, 2000 (15:41) * 15 lines
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you
please.
-- Mark Twain
The most predictable thing about the stock market is the number of
experts who take credit for predicting it.
-- Dave Weinbaum
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of
humor.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 75 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Tue, Mar 7, 2000 (05:25) * 6 lines
As I look in the mirror I see,
And my wondering never ceases,
How year after year I receive,
My cost of living in creases!
(Richard Armour)
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 76 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 7, 2000 (21:21) * 7 lines
*lol*
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean
that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
--Otto von Bismarck
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 77 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 7, 2000 (22:46) * 10 lines
Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it
makes.
-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
-- Elvis Costello
Adolescence is like a house on moving day -- a temporary mess.
-- Julius Warren
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 78 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 8, 2000 (12:09) * 22 lines
Sign: "Highway of Life -- Prepare to Pay Tolls"
-- Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest)
I'm not going to grow old gracefully. I'm going to do it kicking,
screaming and complaining!"
-- Stephanie Piro (Fair Game)
One mosquito to another: "Sure, I believe in reincarnation -- in my
previous life I was an IRS agent!"
-- Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest)
I have only made this letter longer
because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
--Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
-- Francis Bacon
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 79 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Mar 8, 2000 (14:52) * 5 lines
I'm not going to grow old gracefully. I'm going to do it kicking,
screaming and complaining!"
-- Stephanie Piro (Fair Game)
That's me. I intend to grow old discgracefully and have made my intentions quite clear to my family.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 80 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Mar 8, 2000 (14:54) * 6 lines
Nothing seems to make children more affectionate than sticky hands!
Franklin Jones
Children seldom misquote you. In fact they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said!
O.A. Battista
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 81 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 8, 2000 (15:08) * 1 lines
Oh Maggie - those are delicious quotes! I may have to grow up but I refuse to grow old!!! I'm with you!
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 82 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Wed, Mar 8, 2000 (15:21) * 1 lines
I really shocked the rector ( an earlier one) I don't think he ever really approved of me. oh dear!
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 83 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 8, 2000 (15:47) * 1 lines
His loss, I am sure. I have found that one cannot be what everyone wants you to be without losing self. Been there and did that. Most destructive!
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 84 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 9, 2000 (14:10) * 23 lines
``I'm afraid there's a few things in this movie that couldn't quite happen. Having people in space take their helmets off is wonderful drama, but ...''
--Former astronaut BUZZ ALDRIN, at the premiere of the space drama``Mission to Mars.''
``I can't quantify what it is, but it's vibrations that we all feel it reminds us where we came from and where we're going.''
--jazz guitarist PAT METHENY, on what he sees as the universal appeal of music.
"It's always been a friend to me, through relationships that haven't always
lasted, friendships that have come and gone or business associates, the
piano has always been a great source of comfort and friendship.''
--singer-songwriter BILLY JOEL, describing what the piano has meant to his
life at the kickoff of a museum exhibit celebrating the instrument's 300th
anniversary.
"There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you
shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it."
-- Pat Riley
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 85 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 10, 2000 (13:07) * 28 lines
People who need people are people who don't realize just how annoying
people can be.
-- J Wagner (Crabby Road)
Did Mary and Joseph ever get up enough nerve to send Jesus to his
room?
-- Bil Keand (Family Circus)
Just because something's toxic doesn't mean it's not tasty.
-- Matthew J. Siske
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not
religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
-Charlotte Bronte (from Jane Eyre)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is
that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming
of some magical rose garden over the horizon -- instead of
enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows
today.
-Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer and speaker
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 86 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 10, 2000 (20:11) * 12 lines
"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life
in which you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
--Fran Lebowitz
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
--H.L. Mencken
"It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble.
It's the things you know that just ain't so."
--Artimus Ward
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 87 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sat, Mar 11, 2000 (02:35) * 1 lines
Don't tell me about the phone - I just live here and i'm becoming an automated answering machine.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 88 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 13, 2000 (15:37) * 16 lines
"You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people."
- Admiral Grace Hooper
No time for your health today;
no health for your time tomorrow.
-Irish Proverb
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do
whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are
willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."
- Oprah Winfrey
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 89 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 13, 2000 (16:11) * 14 lines
Capital is the fruit of labor and could have never existed if labor
had not first existed.
-- Abraham Lincoln
"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."
-- Isadora Duncan
For the creator of Geo:
"Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are
around at 9am it's because they were up all night."
-- Anon.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 90 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 14, 2000 (17:54) * 13 lines
"Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your
friends, they will certainly not attend yours."
-- H.L. Mencken
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells
us the truth about its author."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United States,
unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine millimeter
bullet."
-- Dave Barry
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 91 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 15, 2000 (14:18) * 13 lines
May those that love us, love us;
and those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts;
and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their
ankles so we'll know them by their limping.
-Old Irish Toast
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have
the habit of making excuses."
- George Washington Carver
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 92 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 15, 2000 (19:24) * 12 lines
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you
will have to ram it down their throats."
-- Howard Aiken
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
-- Anon.
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
-- Abbie Hoffman
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 93 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 16, 2000 (14:42) * 14 lines
*---- Quote of the Day ----*
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared
for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman
If you're going through hell, keep going.
-Sir Winston Churchill
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They
won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
- B.C. Forbes
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 94 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 16, 2000 (19:59) * 10 lines
"May you live every day of your life."
-- Jonathan Swift
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters
compared to what lives within us."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days,
it will be." -- Jeremy Schwartz
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 95 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (15:24) * 8 lines
"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference
between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we
are confident and believe we are going to win out."
- Orsen Swett Marden
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 96 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 20, 2000 (13:19) * 23 lines
"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
-- Pearl Bailey
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."
-- Anon.
"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."
-- Richard Nixon
The meaning of America is not to be found in a life without
toil. Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is
maintained by unremitting effort.
--Calvin Coolidge, US President (1924-1928)
My Country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would
think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like
saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
--Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English writer
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 97 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 21, 2000 (13:16) * 33 lines
"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we
find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude."
-- Miguel de Unanimo
"If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?"
-- Anon.
"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex
system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to
co-exist
peacefully."
-- Doug Vargas
"Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your
level of determination."
-- Grace Lichtenstein
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate
agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.
--Frederick Douglass, (1817-1895) American writer
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does
oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight. And it
is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in
the air -- however slight -lest we become unwitting victims
of the darkness.
-- Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 98 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 22, 2000 (13:12) * 17 lines
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by
focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is."
-- Donald Trump
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 99 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 22, 2000 (13:28) * 16 lines
"Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive
Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And
Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically
Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres,
And Yahoos'."
-- Keven Kwaku
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us."
-- Helen Keller
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
-- Josh Billings
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 100 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (15:31) * 10 lines
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
--- Woody Allen
"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note."
-- Hank Stram
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own
heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-- The Dalai Lama (b. 1935) Tibetan spiritual leader
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 101 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 23, 2000 (16:01) * 12 lines
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
-- William Shakespeare
"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."
-- George Santayana
"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
-- Malcolm Muggeridge
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 102 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 24, 2000 (14:33) * 8 lines
You can only protect your liberties in this world by
protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am.
-- Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing
to do. The hard part is doing it."
- - Norman Schwartzkopf
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 103 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Mar 25, 2000 (19:09) * 6 lines
"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found
in their industry, application, and perseverance under the
prompting of a brave, determined spirit."
-- Mark Twain
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 104 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Mar 25, 2000 (19:47) * 7 lines
"A country that has sold its soul for cement and petrol,
and can only be saved by a series of earthquakes."
-- Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974
"If there is a Hell, Rome is built on top of it."
--German saying
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 105 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 27, 2000 (15:06) * 17 lines
"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
--Anatole France
You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to
people with whom you agree.
--Dwight David Eisenhower
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin
it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
--unknown
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 106 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Mar 27, 2000 (15:16) * 4 lines
"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you
believe you can get the job done."
-- Johnny Unitas
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 107 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 28, 2000 (15:29) * 13 lines
Plans are only good intention unless they immediately
degenerate into hard work.
-- Peter F. Drucker, German-American business consultant
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not
incite us to have them."
-- John Updike
Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, "If ye would go up high,
then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft;
do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!"
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 108 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 29, 2000 (14:01) * 17 lines
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Gandhi
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished:
if you're alive, it isn't."
-- Richard Bach
"All life is an experiment."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that
I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 109 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Mar 30, 2000 (13:03) * 15 lines
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all
that follow it.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist
"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."
-- Paul Eldridge
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they
often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of
humanity."
-- Russell Baker
"Guns don't kill people. I do."
-- Bumper Sticker
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 110 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Mar 31, 2000 (16:02) * 19 lines
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a
difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they
bless you, the giver.
--Barbara De Angelis ,American Relationship Author
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at
all."
-- Dale Carnegie
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
-- Roger Babson
"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be
loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we
do, except walk?"
-- Alice Walker
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 111 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 1, 2000 (18:13) * 25 lines
"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is
required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the
story of a flaming heart."
-- Arnold H. Glasgow
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight
an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the
evil that they set out to destroy.
-- Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) English historian
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to
conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin
it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 112 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 2, 2000 (14:59) * 12 lines
"Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase.
That's what wild geese are for." Anonymous
"In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have
to get out and make some." Anonymous
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play
than in a year of conversation." Plato
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
Tom Robbins, from Still Life with Woodpecker
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 113 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 2, 2000 (18:54) * 16 lines
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and
saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life
without even considering if there are men on base.
-- Dave Barry
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Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected.
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Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your
triumphs or how tragic your defeats--approximately one billion
Chinese couldn't care less.
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Misers aren't much fun to live with, but they make great
ancestors.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 114 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 3, 2000 (16:55) * 21 lines
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent
God bursts through everywhere.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when
differences of culture and outlook are respected and
appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the
common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential
bond for a peaceful world.
--William Fulbright, (1905-1995) American politician
Taxation WITH representation isn't so hot, either!
--Extreme Bumper Stickers
"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of
punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to
concentrate myself on one subject at a time..."
-- Charles Dickens
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 115 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 4, 2000 (16:42) * 14 lines
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"What does not kill me makes me stronger."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would
have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
--Sigmund Freud, (1856-1939) Psychoanalyst
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 116 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 5, 2000 (15:15) * 17 lines
"I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of
the sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for
you are loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway."
-- Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
...crisis simultaneously loosens the stereotypes and provides
incremental data necessary for a fundamental paradigm shift.
--Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."
-- Tennessee Williams
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 117 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 5, 2000 (18:08) * 12 lines
"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide.
Both are forces of nature."
-- William Rotsler
"You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty."
-- Sacha Guitry
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
--W.H. Auden," The Dyer's Hand
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 118 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 6, 2000 (19:38) * 25 lines
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves
you have a sense of humor.
--Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969) American writer & editor
The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous.
--Unknown
"A difference which makes no difference is not a difference."
-- Mr. Spock
"Open up my head and let me out!"
-- Dave Matthew's Band
"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
-- Anwar Sadat
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 119 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 7, 2000 (14:58) * 24 lines
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 David Eisenhower
"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
-- Lester B. Pearson
"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible
suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
-- James Thurber
"All the world's a cage."
-- Jeanne Phillips:
"Well done is better than well said."
-- Benjamin Franklin
A putt that stops close enough to the cup to inspire such comments as
"you could blow it in" may be blown in. This rule does not apply if
the ball is more than three inches from the hole, because no one wants
to make a travesty of the game.
-- Donald A. Metz
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 120 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 8, 2000 (16:20) * 7 lines
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
-- Frederick Douglass, (1817-1895) American abolitionist
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
-- Winston Churchill
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 121 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 10, 2000 (01:17) * 4 lines
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As
of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
-- Thomas Watson
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 122 of 321: Maggie (sociolingo) * Mon, Apr 10, 2000 (04:50) * 3 lines
"Finish with every day and be done with it .... some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in; but get rid of them and forget them as soon as you can .... You should not waste a moment of today on the rottenness of yesterday."
--Dr Paul Faulkner
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 123 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 10, 2000 (14:56) * 29 lines
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
-- Dale Carnegie
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying
as an income tax refund.
--F.J. Raymond
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him
the spinal cord would fully suffice.
--Albert Einstein
The mind has power. Many minds of the same though have great
power So I say to you that this time of sorrow shall indeed
take place. But out of the ashes shall rise the new World of Reason.
--Aradia di Toscano
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for
the public and have no self."
-- Cyril Connolly
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."
-- Edward Shepherd Mead
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 124 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 11, 2000 (14:01) * 18 lines
"Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first."
--Mike Todd
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor
the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist
The mind has power. Many minds of the same though have great
power So I say to you that this time of sorrow shall indeed
take place. But out of the ashes shall rise the new World of Reason.
--Aradia di Toscano
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say
what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what
pleased me.
--Albert Einstein
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 125 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 11, 2000 (14:08) * 12 lines
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
-- Richard Feynman
"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to
people I don't know."
-- Garry Shandling
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read."
-- Groucho Marx
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 126 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 12, 2000 (14:18) * 19 lines
"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you,
but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it.
Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no
one can take it away."
-- Tom Clancy
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
-- Alexander Pope
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
-- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
"Never give advice unless asked."
-- German Proverb
Be glad for life because it gives you the chance to love
and to work and to look up at the stars.
--Henry Van Dyke
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 127 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (21:55) * 10 lines
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which
should not be done at all.
- Peter F. Drucker, German-American business consultant
Why does a 'slight tax increase' cost you two hundred dollars
and a 'substantial tax cut' save you thirty cents?
--Peg Bracken
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 128 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 13, 2000 (21:55) * 8 lines
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well
known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
-- Fred Allen
"He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him."
-- Eddie Cantor
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 129 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 14, 2000 (15:31) * 17 lines
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
-- Christine Bovee
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people,
nor for others, easier."
-- Baltasar Gracian
"It has all been very interesting."
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762
A great revolution of character in just a single man will
help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and,
further, will cause a change in the destiny of all mankind.
- Daisaku Ikeda, founder of the Soka Gakai
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 130 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 15, 2000 (17:53) * 20 lines
I feel like I'm in a rut. Every time I go to bed at night,
I find myself just getting up again in the morning.
---Brad Stine
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor
the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the
spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers
that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will
never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore,
make any progress.
--Anwar Sadat
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may
always advance toward it, though we kow it can never be reached."
--Samuel Johnson
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 131 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 17, 2000 (14:48) * 21 lines
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have
ended up where I intended to be."
-- Douglas Adams
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to
achieve it through not dying."
-- Woody Allen
"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."
-- Evan Davis
"I dote on his very absence."
-- William Shakespeare
"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper
cannot be understood."
-- Mark Ardis
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
-- Bert Taylor
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 132 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (16:02) * 19 lines
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 (1564-1642) Scientist and mathematician
"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends."
-- Woody Allen
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In
either case, the thought is staggering."
-- Buckminster Fuller
"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."
-- William Shakespeare
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
--Bette Davis
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 133 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (21:02) * 7 lines
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at
the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I
know not what course others may take, but as for me, give
me liberty, or give me death!
--Patrick Henry, (1736-1799) American revolutionary and orator
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 134 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (21:06) * 18 lines
"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is
doing the thinking."
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
"The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!"
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
-- William Shakespeare
Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time.
--Goethe, 1749-1832) German poet
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 135 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 20, 2000 (15:08) * 4 lines
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it."
-Sydney J. Harris
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 136 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 20, 2000 (15:10) * 10 lines
"Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it."
-- Unknown
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
-- David Dunham
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
-- Arthur Honegger
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 137 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (18:56) * 24 lines
"I have nothing against the income tax. It's just that every
time my ship comes in, the government unloads it."
-- Unknown
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always
just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down
quietly, may alight upon you.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864) American writer
"I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty
minutes. It involves Russia."
-- Woody Allen
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although
he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this
statement by examining his wives' mouths."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Every crowd has a silver lining."
-- Phineas Taylor Barnum
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 138 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 23, 2000 (20:44) * 16 lines
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
"He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes it was three; I attended their funerals."
-- Mark Twain
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn't stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 139 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, Apr 24, 2000 (16:19) * 15 lines
They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.
--Rudyard Kipling from "The Mary Gloster"
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has
many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men
have some.
-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer
English novelist Anthony Trollope said, "Of the needs
a book has, the chief need is that it be readable."
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 140 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 25, 2000 (14:47) * 22 lines
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,
intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption
from the cares of office."
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
"All marriages are mixed marriages."
-- Chantal Saperstein
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable
substitute for wit."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute
of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."
--Ross Perot
You manage things; you lead people.
--Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 141 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 26, 2000 (15:36) * 24 lines
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom
to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be
they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving
other human beings of that precious right.
--Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) Indian nationalist
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
-- Goethe
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
-- Bertrand Russell
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and
Elvis is alive?"
-- Irv Kupcinet
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a
general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.'
Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
--Pablo Picasso
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 142 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 27, 2000 (19:56) * 18 lines
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its
pipes nor its theories will hold water.
--John W. Gardner, social commentator
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
--Dorothea Brand
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In
practice, there is."
-- Chuck Reid
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-- Isaac Asimov
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are
the easiest person to fool."
-- Richard P. Feynman
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 143 of 321: spring today (sprin5) * Thu, Apr 27, 2000 (21:29) * 1 lines
Good plumbing is important.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 144 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Apr 27, 2000 (21:50) * 1 lines
Yup! The last famous personage to fall victim to poor plumbing (1000 years after the Romans left it to the natives and they did not keep it workable) was Prince Albert who contracted Typhoid Fever from Windsor Castle's primitive sweage system.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 145 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 28, 2000 (14:36) * 20 lines
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to
all other countries because you were born in it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
-- Albert Camus
"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense
and aggravation later in life."
-- Robert Byrne
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success
in life, no matter what may be one's aim."
--John D. Rockefeller
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
--Christian Gellert, (1715-1769) German poet
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 146 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Apr 29, 2000 (13:33) * 3 lines
"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
--Kin Hubbard
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 147 of 321: spring today (sprin5) * Sun, Apr 30, 2000 (11:52) * 2 lines
"Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever."
Chinua Achebe
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 148 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 30, 2000 (15:20) * 5 lines
*...sigh...*
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
--Beverly Sills
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 149 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 1, 2000 (16:20) * 17 lines
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight;indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
--Gordon Graham, American motivational speaker
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
--Khalil Gibran, Arab poet
"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television."
-- Unknown
"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when
you are brave."
-- E. M. Forster, as a small child
"God help those who do not help themselves."
-- Wilson Mizner
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 150 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 2, 2000 (15:33) * 17 lines
"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd
still be eating frozen radio dinners."
-- Johnny Carson
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of
work to do."
-- Jerome K. Jerome
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
-- Steven Wright
"Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a
number. You're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash
and another number."
-- James Estes
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 151 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 2, 2000 (15:34) * 8 lines
"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to
give it everything."
--Vince Lombardi
When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them.
--John Glenn, US politician
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 152 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 3, 2000 (00:25) * 12 lines
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
- Unknown
***
"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in." - Evan Davis
***
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why
take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 153 of 321: spring today (sprin5) * Wed, May 3, 2000 (05:48) * 3 lines
"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
-Bruce Sterling
"Information Superhighway
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 154 of 321: spring today (sprin5) * Wed, May 3, 2000 (05:55) * 2 lines
"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
-William Gibson
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 155 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 3, 2000 (14:40) * 16 lines
My hairy chest pounder would agree with the latter, but I heartily disagree.
"To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those
strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to
attainment."
--James Allen
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
--John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) Economist
The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
--unknown
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 156 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 3, 2000 (17:59) * 14 lines
"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with
one's own opinion."
-- Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."
-- Bill Hoest
"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a
cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For
instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the
last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one
time, it was undoubtedly true."
-- Solomon Short
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 157 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, May 4, 2000 (15:17) * 11 lines
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no
better than we deserve."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it."
-- Elias Schwartz
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
-- Larry Gelbart
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 158 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, May 4, 2000 (15:20) * 6 lines
"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
--Andrew Carnegie
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
--Alexander Haig, (b. 1924) American politician
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 159 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, May 5, 2000 (16:47) * 16 lines
"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."
-- Oscar Levant
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
-- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative.
-Barry Goldwater, US politician (from a speech in 1981)
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then, we elected them.
--Lily Tomlin
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 160 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 9, 2000 (01:03) * 12 lines
It's not good to say "thank you" and not mean it, but it's even worse to mean it and not say it.
--Cited in BITS & PIECES
"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."
-- Charles Schulz
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
"Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?"
-- Woody Allen
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 161 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 9, 2000 (14:39) * 15 lines
Legend - a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
-- H. L. Mencken
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is
finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people
who can never remember where they have left things."
-- Woody Allen
"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A
competent attornety can delay one even longer."
-- Evelle J. Younger
"The big thieves hang the little ones."
-- Czech proverb
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 162 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 9, 2000 (17:31) * 14 lines
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did
was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I
picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
--Jack Handey
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood
around singing 'Happy Birthday'.
--Steven Wright
My girlfriend is weird. She asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, then forget it.'"
--Steven Wright
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 163 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 9, 2000 (18:04) * 3 lines
Justice is incidental to law and order.
--J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) American lawyer and FBI director
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 164 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 10, 2000 (15:05) * 3 lines
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 165 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 10, 2000 (15:06) * 10 lines
"Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chcats pleasantly while
he's overcharging you."
-- Kin Hubbard
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
-- Douglas Adams
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
-- Quentin Crisp
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 166 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 10, 2000 (16:12) * 7 lines
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists
and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind
in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined
not to quit until he finds it."
--Alexander Graham Bell
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 167 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, May 11, 2000 (00:34) * 38 lines
Today's 'Confused-Us' Saying...
"a great idea needs landing gear, not just wings."
Random Thought...
"Remember, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat"
Another Random Thought...
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. - Don Herold"
And Another Random Thought...
"For neatness, always draw the curves first, and afterwards plot the data"
Still Another Random Thought...
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights"
Yet Another Random Thought...
"Press -- to continue"
Murphy's Law of the Day...
"If a project requires n components, there will be n-1 units in stock."
Computer Tagline...
"Smash forehead on keyboard to continue...."
Today's Steven Wright Joke...
"I used to be a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic."
Today's 'You Might Be A Redneck If' (tm) Joke...
"You name your twin boys Jack and Daniel."
Today's Sniglet(tm)...
"Mowmuffins ( MO muh finz) - n. The dried accumulation of grass on the underside of lawnmowers."
Today's Book Hype...
"Playing with the Christmas Fire: Yule B. Sari"
Today's Actual Headline...
"JUVENILE COURT TO TRY SHOOTING VICTIM"
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 168 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, May 11, 2000 (18:10) * 17 lines
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
--Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian poet and playwright
"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge."
--Terry Bradshaw
"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course,
you are an exceptionally good liar."
-- Jerome K Jerome
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past."
-- George Orwell
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
-- George Santayana
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 169 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, May 12, 2000 (18:27) * 12 lines
"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
"They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them."
-- Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-- Helen Keller
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 170 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, May 12, 2000 (21:01) * 13 lines
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is
where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station...
***
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people
appear bright until you hear them speak.
***
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day...Teach him how
to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day!
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 171 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, May 13, 2000 (17:04) * 4 lines
If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess
a noble soul.
--Goethe, 1749-1832) German poet
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 172 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 15, 2000 (01:15) * 5 lines
"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college,
where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
- Dennis Rodman, on Chicago Bulls team chemistry being overrated
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 173 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 15, 2000 (15:19) * 17 lines
Kinkler's First Law:
Responsibility always exceeds authority.
Kinkler's Second Law:
All the easy problems have been solved.
"The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
--Henry Ward Beecher
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are
free to do than in what we are free not to do.
-Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 174 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 16, 2000 (17:43) * 13 lines
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to
speak it to?"
-- Clarence Darrow
"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of
non-violence has been the organization of violence."
-- Joan Baez
"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death
really hates that!"
-- Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 175 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 17, 2000 (21:23) * 20 lines
"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create that fact.
--William James (1842-1910) Psychologist and philosopher
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade
you do not expect to sit."
-- Nelson Henderson
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 176 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, May 18, 2000 (13:49) * 12 lines
"Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and
some wonder 'What happened?'"
-- Unknown
"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying."
-- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop
to admitting it."
-- Doug Larson
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 177 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, May 19, 2000 (19:33) * 15 lines
"Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3.14159"
--MIT Cheer for their favorite irrational number as reported in Smithsonian, May 2000
Also reported in the May 2000 Smithsonain- Pi Day is celebrated each March 14 at 1:59pm at the San Francisco's Exploratorium.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
--David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) American biologist/educator
The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.
--Thomas Jefferson
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 178 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, May 20, 2000 (19:30) * 3 lines
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--C.G. Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 179 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sun, May 21, 2000 (20:36) * 7 lines
"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait....The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons, and results, and reasons simply don't count."
-- Robert Anthony
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot...when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
--Michael Jordan
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 180 of 321: spring today (sprin5) * Mon, May 22, 2000 (05:17) * 1 lines
Michaels good enough, shoots well enough, and, gosh darn, people like him.
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 181 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 22, 2000 (18:31) * 18 lines
Who is Michaels? Not Al, surely!
"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."
-- Charles Lamb
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature."
-- Tom Robbins
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless."
--Thomas Edison
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 182 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Mon, May 22, 2000 (18:34) * 6 lines
Oh, Michael's good enough....Yup! He is an phenom and all those other words and he is NICE, too - seriously unusual in that sport - or anywhere!
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
--Thomas Jefferson
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 183 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Tue, May 23, 2000 (17:43) * 18 lines
"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."
-- Ed Howe:
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall
instead of using it."
-- Gordon R. Dickson
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"
-- B.F. Skinner
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
-- Seneca
There is no way to truly influence a process except to dive into its dynamics, those forces that give it life and propel it to its present form.
--Margaret Wheatley Author
Topic 23 of 32 [today]: Quote of the day
Response 184 of 321: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, May 24, 2000 (18:47) * 36 lines
"Power over persons is so dangerous a thing that only those can be trusted with it who do not want it."
-Plato
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools."
-Herbert Spencer
"The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in."
-A. E. Houseman
"It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.This is as true of men as of dogs."
-Eric Hoffer
"It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too."
-Josh Billings
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King
"Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly."
-Indian Saying
"A leader is best when