Quotes, January 2003
01. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
02. Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty.
- Voltaire
03. A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
- W.H. Auden
04. Never speak disrespectful of society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
- Oscar Wilde
05. I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
- H.L. Mencken
06. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.
- August Strindberg
07. The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
- Douglas Jerrold
08. How pleasant it is to have money!
- Arthur Clough
09. Happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
- Ray M. Goodman
10. Vigilia pretium libertatis.
[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.]
- Latin proverb
11. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernhard Shaw
12. It is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
- Thomas H. Huxley
13. The only thing that men and women have in common, is that they both prefer the company of men.
- Oscar Wilde
14. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
15. Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
- Oscar Wilde
17. An amateur thinks it’s really funny if you dress a man up as an old lady, put him in a wheelchair, and give the wheelchair a push that sends it spinning down a slope towards a stone wall. For a pro, it’s got to be a real old lady.
- Groucho Marx
18. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, "yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.
- Dan Barker
20. Appetite comes with eating.
- Francois Rabelais
21. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
22. When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
- I.F. Stone
23. Road Rage, Air Rage. Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it’s just one big, all-around everyday rage. I don’t have time for fine distinctions, I’m busy screaming at people.
- George Carlin
24. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
- Charles Evans Hughes
25. Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough, it will be true.
- Arnold Bennet
26. The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
- Ezra Pound
27. A:>hello
bad command or file name
A:>help
bad command or file name
A:>do somthing!
bad command or file name
A:> F#$k you!!!!
bad command or file name, A#% hole
- Dave Barry, (from "Dave Barry in Cyberspace")
No quotes Jan 28-Feb 9 due to computer & modem problems.
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