 | Endless loop: n., see Loop, endless.
Loop, endless: n., see Endless loop. |
| Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax
collectors and miss. ~Lazarus Long |
| To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
~Thomas Edison |
| Documentation is like sex; when it is good, it is very, very good,
and when it is bad, it's better than nothing. ~Dick Brandon |
| I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence.
There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work. ~Gallagher |
| You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You
get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. ~Lauren Bacall |
| The trouble with doing something right the first time is that
nobody appreciates how difficult it was. |
| The older I get, the better I use to be. ~seen on a coffee
mug |
| Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we
can. Having found them, we shall hate them for it. ~Emersons' Law of
Contradictions |
| Practical people would be more practical if they would take a
little more time for dreaming. ~J.P. Mcevoy |
| A faith holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his
actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.
~Gordon Dickson |
| All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and
disregards the rest. ~Paul Simon |
| If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing
evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human
being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? ~Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn |
| Doubt everything. Find your own light. ~Last words of
Gotama Buddha |
| By these methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which
is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the
bitterest. ~Confucius |
| A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ~Edger
Watson Howe |
| It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you
know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~H.L. Menken |
| How glorious it is, and also how painful, to be an exception.
~Alfredde Musset |
| If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money
so that you won't have to work. ~Ogden Nash |
| A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is
driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to
share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants
to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved.
And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ~Leo Rosten |
| The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is
expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin |
| We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the
responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw |
| To him who is in fear, everything rustles. ~Sophocles |
| Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Voltaire |
| Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice
Walker |
| The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal
is integrity. ~Zig Ziglar |
| Satisfaction guaranteed or double your garbage back. ~seen
on a Massachusetts garbage truck |
| If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be human,
you'd be a game show host. ~Winona Ryder in "Heathers" |
| After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
~Italian Proverb |
| Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies
will not believe you anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard |
| What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~John
Lubbock |
| Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of
others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for
yourself. Face the truth. ~Katherine Mansfield |
| My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. ~Ovid |
| As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down
there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ~Marian
Anderson |
| When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I
would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you
gave me". ~Erma Bombeck |
| There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the
difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. ~Phyllis Bottome |
| Sure I'm helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself
some day. ~Lillian Carter (at age 85) |
