And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. ~Bill Bryson
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1901, translated by Alfred Sutro
I think skipping could be the answer to many of our adult health problems. ~Jeanne, as posted on iskip.com
Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man. ~Author Unknown
I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World. ~Simon Bolivar
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ~James Russell Lowell
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success. ~Robert Orben
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, "Identity Crisis," original airdate 2 November 1981, written by Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, directed by David Ogden Stiers
Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted, but his or her entertainment value. ~Author Unknown
The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ~Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike. ~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. ~Brooks Atkinson
A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. ~James Russell Lowell
I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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