* Summary: List of quotes used in the text traits editor. These were all scavanged off the WWW.
* Written by: Jesse Jones
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* Copyright ｩ 1996 Jesse Jones.
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// ???
"Herein we see the fulfillment of the true purpose of e-mail, to waste your time with silly chuckles. This installment comes from Tim Jaques, the apotheosis of silly chuckles.",
"Deja Fu: The feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've been kicked in the head like this before.",
"A day without sunshine is like night.",
"There is a CD out entitled 'The Worst of Jefferson Airplane'. If you buy this, take it home, play it, and enjoy it, should you take it back and demand a refund?",
"College is a fountain of knowledge...and the students are there to drink.",
"A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform.",
"Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk. -- Stephen King, 3/8/90",
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.-- Abraham Maslow",
"He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead.",
"Photons have mass? I didn't know they were catholic!",
"If you had everything, where would you keep it?",
"The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.",
"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University",
"What was sliced bread the greatest thing since?",
"When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.",
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.",
"When you're swimmin' in the creek¥nAnd an eel bites your cheek¥nThat's a moray!¥n -- Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers",
"Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?¥nA: Two. One to hold the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.",
"Character density: The number of very weird people in the office.",
"Save the whales. Collect the whole set.",
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.-- Dorothy Parker",
"To err is human, to moo bovine.",
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth",
"The meek shall inherit the earth---they are too weak to refuse.",
"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.-- Joe Walsh",
"Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3---not even for very large values of 2.",
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock.",
"There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.",
"Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?¥nA: Two. One to hold the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.¥n-- Tim Jacques",
// ???
"A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.",
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (sipping champagne on his deathbed)",
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.",
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.",
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.",
"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.",
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.",
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.",
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.",
"Why was I born with such contemporaries?",
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.",
// Kevin Garber Quote Archive
"Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean - Paul Sartre",
"You got to be careful if you dont know where your'e going, because you might not get there. - Yogi Berra",
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis",
"Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau",
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain",
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay",
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill",
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)",
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway",
"There is a fine line between conformity and seclusion, that is individuality - Unknown",
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. - Lou Holtz",
"The good life starts only when you stop wanting a better one. - Unknown",
"The hardest thing to learn in life is, which bridge to cross, and which to burn. - Unknown",
"Thought is action in rehearsal. - Freud",
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. - Dali",
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Dali",
"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. - Dali",
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Kierkegaard",
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Einstein",
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard",
"You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain",
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules De Gaultier",
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H.L. Mencken",
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Francis Bacon",
"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon",
"No solitude is so solitary as that of inharmonious companionship. - Elizabeth S. Phelps",
"Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another. - H L Mencken",
"War would end if the dead could return. - Stanley Baldwin",
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. - Gen. Sherman",
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso",
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high for the priveledge of owning yourself. - Author Unknown",
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen",
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. - Howard Ruff",
"Here's what I think about government: it's always the same garbage; only the flies change. - Rubem Tobelem Jeep Tour Guide Tijuca Forest, Brazil",
"It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein",
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. - Willa A. Foster",
"You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won - loss record of the referee. - John H. Holcomb",
"Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from! - John Virgil",
"Stay out of the road if you want to grow old. - Pink Floyd",
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common. - John Locke",
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it only when he is alone that he is really free. - Arthur Schopenhauer",
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)",
"Seek simplicity but distrust it. - A N Whitehead",
"All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. - Cecil",
"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson",
"I can't change the world, but I can change the world in me. - Bono - in the U2 song Rejoice",
"When a man is willing and eager, the G-ds join in. - Aeschylus",
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade ! - Unknown",
"Art belongs to those who need it, not those who made it. - Unknown",
"Wherever I look, words have been used up. Gone. They don't mean anything. G-d. Light. Sex. And the most powerful word has got to be love, but the fight is on for that one. - Bono",
"Did you exchange your walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage ? - Pink Floyd - in the song Wish You Were Here",
"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love; and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison",
"Contentment is the philosopher's stone, which turns all it toucheth into gold; the poor man is rich with it and the rich man is poor without it. - Unknown",
"Life becomes tragic to him who has plenty to live on but little to live for. - Unknown",
"Love is made in heaven and consumated on earth - John Lyly",
"Love is friendship set to music. - Pollock",
"It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. - Aristotle",
"Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy he who acts the Colombus to his own soul. - Stephen",
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. - Earl of Chesterfield",
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle",
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us - Alexander Graham Bell",
"It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. - Jeremy Taylor",
"Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments. - Saville",
// Dave Kone's Quote Book - Part 1
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible. -- Walt Disney",
"Anything worth doing is worth doing well.",
"Nothing is impossible for anyone impervious to reason.",
"Rub her feet. -- Robert A. Heinlein",
"I think not, therefore I ain't.",
"Occasionally man will stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and go on. -- Churchill's Commentary on Man",
"Nothing is real. -- John Lennon",
"One concrete problem is worth a thousand unapplied abstractions.",
"You can't push on a rope.",
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space. All else is opinion. -- Democritus, 460-370 B.C.",
"Born again virgin. -- Pin",
"No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai",
"I fart in your general direction. -- from Monty Python and the Holy Grail",
"Evolution has a very weird sense of aesthetics. -- Amy Ferris, New College, 1987",
"The way to a man's heart is with a broadsword. -- Pin",
"POSSLQ - Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters -- U.S. Census Bureau",
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.",
"Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.",
"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.",
"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.",
"Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, along come faster rats.",
"The light at the end of the tunnel could turn out to be the headlight of an oncoming train.",
"'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.",
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein.",
"Born Again Pagan. -- T-Shirt",
"JOIN THE ARMY - Travel to exotic, distant lands... Meet exciting, unusual people... And Kill Them. -- T-Shirt",
"TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.",
"Minds are like parachutes - they function only when open. -- Ruth Noller",
"A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.",
"A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle. -- T-Shirt",
"All defective material will be cheerfully replaced with goods of equal quality.",
"We're not the S.C.A. -- Brent Edwards, 1988",
"Love is rosier than a tanned bottom -- from The Threepenny Opera",
"Sex is nobody's business except for the three people involved.",
"We all live in a yellow subroutine.",
"Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.",
"If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.",
"The obscure we see immediately - the completely apparent takes longer.",
"E Pluribus Unix -- Pin",
"You see things and say 'Why?' but I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?' -- JFK",
"What color is a chameleon on a mirror?",
"Cover me, I'm changing lanes. -- Pin",
"Please do not look into laser with remaining eyeball.",
"Support Wildlife - Throw a Party.",
"To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer.",
"Mobile non-smoking area.",
"I don't have to take this abuse from you - I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me.",
"Money talks. The last thing I heard it say was 'Goodbye'.",
"He's dead, Jim. You get his phaser, I'll get his wallet. -- Pin",
"Never work for exposure. People die of exposure every year.",
"Some things are still sacred - I haven't taken them apart yet.",
"The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.",
"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.",
"There are very few personal problems which can't be solved by a suitable application of high explosives. -- Pin",
"I'm married, not DEAD. -- Pin",
"In D & D, life's a die, then you bitch.",
"Leisure Rules -- from Ferris Bueller's Day Off",
"Beware the fury of a patient man.",
"Peacemonger.",
"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will escape to the stars.",
"Real men write self-modifying code. -- Pin, 1984",
"Why is duct tape called The Force? Because it's light on one side, dark on the other, and it binds the universe together.",
"Migratory lifeform with a tropism for parties.",
"Keep your lips off it. -- Jonathan David Solomon Vladi-Slava Schwartz",
"I have always preferred constrictors to venom. -- Jonathan David Solomon Vladi-Slava Schwartz",
"How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker? -- Scotty, Star Trek",
"History is made at night. Character is what you are in the darkness. -- from Buckaroo Banzai",
"Sometimes a fanatasy is all you need. -- Billy Joel",
"Don't forget to dance. -- The Kinks",
"An armed society is a polite society. -- Robert A. Heinlein",
"It makes sense. Not to ME, but it makes sense. -- Annie Harris, 1984",
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. A confusion of the real and ideal never goes unpunished. -- Goethe",
"Damnit Bones, I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. -- James T. Kirk, Star Trek",
"If you want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. If you want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop. -- from the film Raising Arizona",
"Oral Roberts University this place is not. -- Elisa Gailey, on Bates College",
"Time flies when you're unconcious. -- Dave Picton, 9/24/88",
"Help! Help! We're being repressed! -- from Monty Python and the Holy Grail",
"The very earth trembled with our coming... -- Veasslurd Folk Tale read at the Great Northeastern War III, A.S. XXIV, in the shire of Malagentia.",
"Any sleep I get beyond the first six hours is just adding dreams to an already troubled subconcious. -- David Kone, 9/27/88",
"I see no reason to stand here and be insulted. -- Spock",
"I was attempting the hell to communicate. -- Spock",
"For the world, you're somebody. For somebody, you're the world.",
"I'll show you how to get to the bowling alley when we get there. -- Dave Young, 1988",
"The world's full of idiots, and they're all in your room!",
"I wonder what it would look like under a microscope... -- Peaches Gailey, 9/9/88",
"Five is the car's capacity, but six is more fun. -- Rick Cagle, 9/9/88",
"The strange noises that come from this campus are without number. -- Peaches Gailey & Diana Van Valen, 9/10/88",
"Drop Dead Twice.",
"I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die. -- Tom Dennenberg",
"The other line always moves faster.",
"Altitude is a mixture of aptitude and attitude.",
"Life is full of questions, most of them multiple-choice. -- Radio Commercial, 1988",
"Keep your nose to the grindstone and all you'll get is a short nose.",
"A closed mouth gathers no feet.",
// Reba's Eclectic quote list
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.¥nThomas Jefferson",
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who had endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.¥nGalileo Galilei",
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.¥A.E.",
"Everyone has his custom, his religion. One cannot reach so great a secret by one way alone.¥nSymmachus, 384 C.E.",
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.¥nF. Nietzche",
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.¥nVoltaire",
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.¥nDalai Lama",
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.¥nThomas Jefferson",
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.¥nRobert A. Heinlein",
"Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.¥nBenjamin Franklin",
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.¥nThomas Paine",
"The whole world seems to live under the banner: 'Freedom is wonderful -- but only for me.'¥nIsaac Asimov",
"The first thing a principle does, if it really is a principle, is to kill someone.¥nDorothy Sayers",
"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place.¥nRabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz",
"One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only the truth.¥nVoltaire",
"He who saves one life saves the world entire.¥nThe Talmud",
"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us up.¥nCharles Bukowski",
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.¥nRichard Bach",
"You never know who is going to be your Angel of Death.¥nIsaac Bashevis Singer",
"It is one thing, to show a man that he is in an error, and another, to put him in posession of the truth.¥nJohn Locke",
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.¥nDouglas Adams",
"The vice of our country is that we are always outraged at the wrong things.¥nNorman Mailer",
"America is ready for cynicism, but not for tasteful restraint.¥nTashery Shannon",
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.¥nGamel Abdel Nasser",
"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.¥nBruno Jasienski",
"If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.¥nTom Robbins",
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.¥nMark Twain",
"Oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw for ever on the vasts of ignorance.¥nGeorge Eliot",
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.¥nW. B. Yeats",
"The English language has an unbroken tradition of excellence and when it goes to sleep there is always an Irishman who appears and wakes it up.¥nCarlos Fuentes",
"The English and Americans are two peoples separated by a common language.¥nOscar Wilde",
"The single most important thing to know about Americans -- the attitude which truly distinguishes them from the British, and explains much superficially odd behavior -- is that Americans believe that death is optional.¥nJane Walmsley",
"Of course, to be really refined, one has to be dead.¥nJane Austen",
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.¥nE.M. Forster",
"Character is what you are in the dark.¥nF. Nietzche",
"To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.¥nC. G. Jung",
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.¥nMarcus Aurelius",
"That's what we need: unbelievable odds with just a speck of hope.¥nDue South",
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.¥nAlbert von Szent-Gyorgy",
"Ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer. Isn't that the very essence of science?¥nFox Mulder, The X-Files",
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.¥nPlato",
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.¥nArthur C. Clarke",
"It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent.¥nQ, Star Trek: The Next Generation",
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.¥nAristotle",
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.¥nBertrand Russell",
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.¥nElbert Hubbard",
"It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.¥nAbraham Lincoln",
"People must think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.¥nCalvin, Calvin & Hobbes",
"For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.¥nWilliam Shakespeare",
"Either humanity is alone in the Universe, or it is not. Either prospect is mind-boggling.",
"I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, while infinitely small, is not exactly zero.",
"It's not that life is so short. It's that we're dead for so long.",
"The difference between theory and practice is bigger in practice than it is in theory.",
"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.",
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.",
"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.",
"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.",
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.",
"The biggest problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.",
// Mark L. Hessenflow quote file
"Theoretically, an age of bureaucracy can last until a paper shortage develops. -A. Weishaupt",
"Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes. -Richard Daley",
"The Lyre of Orpheus opens the door to the underworld of the emotions.",
"I wrote again, trying to coax Hoffman to see things from my point of view, which is not to push forward the frontiers of music, I assure you, or to plunge into the murky world of dreams... -[Someone in the Lyre of Orpheus, by Roberson Davies]",
"She doth teach the torches to burn bright.",
"Blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. -Freud",
"Coincidences are a spiritual sort of pun. -G. K. Chesterton",
"If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty. -Sanskrit proverb",
"Commit random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.",
"The universe doesn't have to make sense all the time for us to appreciate its beauty, and the reflection it throws upon our own lives.",
"Boldness has magic in it. -Goethe",
"A system is the tail of truth... -Chris Stevens",
"One never makes a bad investment--some of them just turn out that way.",
"The most transitory, when it truly touches us, awakens in us something everlasting. -Hebbel",
"Bon, voila ton raissonment qui a le nez casse'. -Dom Juan",
"O oi che siete in picciolette barca.",
"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. -Hemingway.",
"Mortals are forgotten ten minutes after they die; writers can be remembered in the tales of Parisian bartenders, suitable for the amusement of tourists. -Hemingway",
"``It seems very pretty, but it's rather hard to understand!'' (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) -From _Alice Through the Looking Glass_",
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of - but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. -Heinlein",
"If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. -Heinlein",
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human - at best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. -Heinlein",
"Bonze: noun, from the Portugese word `Bonzo', meaning an impolite though not necessarily offensive term for a Japanese clergyman.",
"A handy non-sexist word: `Klansperson'.",
"Nur der Wannsinnige ist sich absolut sicher.",
"Pink was not her color...neither was she fond of true blue.",
"Prisons are built with the stones of Law, brothels with the bricks of Religion. -William Blake",
"Don't clean our lenses, get the crack out of you own. -Nothingarian slogan",
"Ye have locked yourselves up in cages of fear, and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack freedom. -Omar Khayyam",
"Short-term expedience always fails in the long run. -Frank Herbert",
"Remember your Philosopher's Doubts...beware! The mind of a believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. -Frank Herbert",
"The unclouded eye is better, no matter what it sees. -Frank Herbert",
"How very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author. -R. L. Stevenson",
"Ah well, they say it is not as bad as they say it is.",
"A map is not the territory. -Alfred Korzybski",
"He who attempts to penetrate into the rose garden of the philosophers without the key resembles a man who would walk without feet. -Michael Maier",
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Picasso",
"You can observe a lot just by watching. -Yogi Berra",
"Life is life and fun is fun, but it is all so quiet when the golfish dies. -translated from the Coptic.",
"Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptable eons of the gods. -Joyce",
"A dangerous path is this, like the edge of a razor. -a Hindu text",
"...where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures, and illusions... -?",
"Wonderful, I never did like to do anything simply when I could do it ass-backwards. -(Flatline)",
"A lusty bit of nourishment... cursed with a keen appetite am I...",
"...a sharp, black satire with Jacobian undercurrents...",
"I know your purpose, Mr. Pritiman: the old King must be sacraficed so that Lowlands my bloom again. -AVPP",
"The Sage acts but does not possess, completes his work but does not dwell on it. In this fashion, he has no desire to display his worth. -42(77)",
"The killing of masses of human beings, we bewail with sorrow and grief; Victory in battle, we commemorate with mourning ritual. -75(31)",
"Per speculum in aenigmate. -St. Paul",
"Now we see in a mirror, in darkness, but later we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but later I shall know as I am known. -Cipriano de Valera",
"It may be that universal history is the history of a handful of metaphors. -Borges",
"The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. -Herbert",
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. -Herbert",
"A good warrior is not bellicose, A good fighter does not anger, A good conqueror does not contest his enemy, One who is good at using others puts himself below them. -Lao Tzu",
"One who knows does not speak; One who speaks does not know. -Lao Tzu",
"That clear colourness light is a sense-symbol of the formless void. What then is this void? It is not absolutely `Nothingless'. It is the Alogical, to which no categories drawn from the world of name and form apply.",
"``[Some there may be] who have listened much [to religious instructions] yet not recognized; and [some] who, though recognizing, are nevertheless weak in familiarity'' -TBotD",
"A change in the weather is enough to renew the world and ourselves. -Proust",
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller",
"Something is hiddden, go and find it. -Kipling",
"The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem. -Einstein",
"The elevation of ends and the simplification of means is the goal. -Thoreau",
"Pain is certain, suffering is optional.",
"Be not afraid of growing slowly -- be afraid only of standing still.",
"Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produes results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. -Anthony Robbins",
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -John Ruskin",
"You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally, and you absorb it totally. -Louise Nelson",
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -Duke Ellington",
"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. -Rainier Maria Rilke",
"Being a good craftsman will in no way prevent you from becoming a genius. -Renoir",
"In every religion there is a doctinal line beyond which it insults the intelligence of its practicioners. Reasonable people may disagree as to where the that line should be, but religions trespass well beyond it at their peril. -Joss Palmer",
"...bureaucratic religions try to institutionalize your perception of the numinous instead of providing the means so you can perceive the numinous directly. -Eleanor Arrorway",
"Reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapesty. -Cervantes.",
"To reach out, to struggle, to give, to remember, to have loved, to have friends...is to have lived. (from a greeting card inspired by Mexican poetry).",
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. -Oscar Wilde",
"It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. -Albert Einstein",
"Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. -Hasidic saying",
"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is. -Assata Shakur",
"When faced with a choice between two evils, I like to choose the one I have not tried before. -Mae West",
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery",
// Dave's quote page
"The ideal of American parenthood is to be a kid with your kid.¥n--Shana Alexander",
"The hardest part of raising children is teaching them to ride bicycles...A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.¥n--Sloan Wilson",
"If you have a lemon, make lemonade.¥n--Howard Gossage",
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.¥n--Henny Youngman",
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.¥n--Henry Kissinger",
"Washington appears to be filled with two kinds of politicians those trying to get an investigation started, and those trying to get one stopped.¥n--Earl Wilson",
"A clean desk represents an empty mind.¥n--Felix Frankfurter",
"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and demanded to know who May was.--Rodney Dangerfield",
"The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.--John Kenneth Galbraith",
"For man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.--Dr. Albert Ellis",
"If you don't run your life someone else will.--John Atkinson",
// Dan's Quote Collection
"Lord grant me the strength to change what I can, the ability to accept what I can't, and the capacity to tell the difference. ??? John Calvin ???",
"People always get what they ask for; the only trouble is that they never know, until they get it, what they have asked for. Aldous Huxley",
"In language, clarity is everything. Confucius",
"Great things can be reduced to small things, and small things can be reduced to nothing. Chinese Proverb",
"God created the integers; all the rest is the work of man. Leopold Kronecker",
"Yea, from the table of my memory, I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. Shakespeare, Hamlet",
"[Pointers] are like jumps, leaping wildly from one part of data structure to another. Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step backward from which we may never recover. C. A. R. Hoare",
"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer, Trees",
"An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... Mark Twain",
"Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten. (He who laughs last, laughs best.)",
"Wenn die Katze aus dem Haus ist, tanzen die M隔se. (When the cat's away, the mice will play.)",
"What we have to learn to do we learn by doing. Aristotle",
"There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn",
"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. Goethe",
"Woe to the author who always wants to teach! The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. Voltaire",
"All such expressions as ¥sqrt(-1), ¥sqrt(-2)... are neither nothing, nor greater than nothing, nor less than nothing, which necessarily constitutes them imaginary or impossible. L. Euler",
"We have more useless information than ignorance of what is useful. Vauvenargues",
"I can only assume that a 'Do Not File' document is filed in a 'Do Not File' file. Senator Frank Church",
"Programming graphics in X is like finding ¥sqrt(¥pi) using roman numerals.",
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein",
"It's only work if somebody makes you do it. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"There's an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"That's the remarkable thing about life. No matter how bad it gets, it can always get worse. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"Hobbes: Did you ask your Mom if you could jump off the roof?¥nCalvin: Questions I know the answers to, I don't need to ask, right?¥nCalvin and Hobbes",
"Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?¥nCalvin: Too few role models.¥nCalvin and Hobbes",
"The Lord bless and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV)",
"Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. MIT AI Lab job ad in Comm. of the ACM, vol. 35, no. 6, June 1992, pp. 160",
"You are what you think, not what you do.",
"He knew not what to say and so he swore. Alfred Lord Tennyson",
"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Benjamin Franklin",
"The fault finder will find fault even in paradise. Henry David Thoreau",
"After silence, that which can come nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley",
"Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli",
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton",
"Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them. Isn't that worth learning? L. M. Montgomery",
"We live, as we dream--alone. Joseph Conrad",
"Our happiness or unhappiness depends solely on the quality of the object we love. Unknown",
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those which follow. de La Rouchefoucauld",
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott",
"For anything worth having one must pay, and the price is always work, patience, love and self-sacrifice. John Burroughs",
"It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. Percy Johnston",
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad",
"All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. Benedict Spinoza",
"We learn to live by living with others. Thomas Merton",
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Unknown",
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Arthur Godfrey",
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius",
"I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. Wilson Mizner",
"No God, no peace; know God, know peace. Unknown",
"Some walls have ears, but some ears have walls. Unknown",
"Do the best you can for your neighbor. Never forget from where you come. And see if you can improve the lot of your fellow man. Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill",
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2",
"Als je je kont verbrand dan moet je op de blaren zitten. (If you burn your butt, then you have to sit on the blisters.) old Dutch saying",
"Hoge bomen vangen veel wind. (Tall trees catch a lot of wind.) old Dutch saying",
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson",
"In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. Mark Twain",
"It's not denial. I'm just very particular about the reality I choose to accept. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"That's one small step for [a ?] man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong, 20 July 1969",
"A man is handsome all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she's your wife. Al Bundy",
"Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough. Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce",
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes",
"As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious Albert Schweitzer",
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Mark Twain",
"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, III, iii, 147",
"When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. R. H. Grant",
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell",
"What we say is important...for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Jim Beggs",
"...it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Josh Billings",
"It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting. Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd",
"A distributed system is one in which I cannot get something done because a machine I've never heard of is down. Leslie Lamport",
"We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions. Jerry Wunder",
"One test is worth a thousand expert opinions. Bill Nye, the Science Guy",
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein",
"If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself. Albert Einstein",
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B.F. Skinner, 'Education in 1984', New Scientist, May 21, 1964, p. 484",
"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933",
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein",
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill",
"I dare not speak ill of any man behind his back, but I believe the man is an attorney. Samuel Johnson",
"The computer is unbeatable for dashing quick thoughts off to strangers [and] as a way of procrastinating sending messages to friends. Judith Martin (Miss Manners)",
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and erase all doubt. Mark Twain",
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. Paul Erdos",
"O! This learning, what a thing it is. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew",
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker",
"Knowledge itself is power. Francis Bacon",
"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. Mark Twain",
"Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce",
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Henry David Thoreau, Walden",
"...A fine lass, of nice ways and orderly conduct, none ever seeing her drunk above four days in the seven. Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper",
"Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. writer Calvin Trillin",
"By all means marry. If you have a good wife, you will be happy. If you have a bad wife, you will become a philosopher. Socrates",
"An expert is just somebody from out of town. Mark Twain",
"Behind every successful man, there stands a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. Harry S. Truman",
"He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. Publilius Syrus, ca. 1st century BC, Maxims",
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain",
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell",
"Nobody on his deathbed ever said: 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.' Peter Lynch",
"I have lifted this speech from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. If more people would acknowledge that they got their pearls of wisdom from that book instead of the original, it might clear the air. Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus",
"Do all the good you can¥nBy all the means you can¥nIn all the ways you can¥nIn all the places you can¥nTo all the people you can¥nAs long as ever you can.¥nJohn Wesley (1703-91), founder of Methodism",
