In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~Changing Times magazine
Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating. ~Martin Reiser, quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft
Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Hug a police officer. It's the law! ~Author Unknown
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. ~Peter Dunne, 1992
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ~Andre Gide, L'immoraliste
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare
An idea whose time has come was waiting there all along. ~Carrie Latet
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. ~George Horace Lorimer
It used to be enough that when I came home angry and knowing that my life wasn't toeing my five-year plan, I could clean my condominium or detail my car. Someday I'd be dead without a scar and there would be a really nice condo and car. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~Harriet van Horne
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? ~Galileo Galilei
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. ~E.M. Forster
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag
A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire
A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ~Wilt Chamberlain
My body is here, but my mind has already teed off. ~Author Unknown
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