From buddy Thu Jan 13 10:40:02 1994 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 14:13:32 Subject: random saying "It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." -- Alan Shepherd (apollo astronaut) Life is what's taking place while you're busy planning your future. -- Ellen Daleng It's a commonly accepted truth that a rich bachelor needs a wife. -- Jane Austen In our family we don't divorce our husbands - we bury them. -- Ruth Gordon "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for!" -- unknown "There's no Truth in the News and no News in the Truth." -- unknown If you don't attend other peoples funerals, none of them will attend yours. -- unknown Most people become parents before they have stopped being children. -- unknown Salt is what makes the food taste bad when it's missing. -- unknown Experience is the worst teacher - it gives you the test before you've had the chance to study. -- unknown In music, an interval is the distance from one piano to another. -- unknown Everything which can be done anytime, will never be done. -- unknown Christianity would perhaps turn out to be a good thing if anyone ever tried it in practice. -- unknown It is easier to fight for your principles than to live by them. -- unknown Just when I had learned all the answers of life, they changed all the questions. -- unknown To err is human, but it feels divine. -- Mae West A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, an excellent conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you. -- Lisa Kirk Every time I date a man I think: Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -James F. Byrnes Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -Ashleigh Brilliant Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't and those in cemeteri$ -Everett Dirksen It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. -Cecile Stewart An average, healthy, well-adjusted, adult being gets up at seven-thirty - and feels terrible. -- Joan Kerr If you can keep your mind calm when everybody else is losing theirs, you may not have fully realized the situation. -- Joan Kerr The mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance. -- Helen Rowland When faced with the choice between two evils, I always choose the one I haven't tried before. -- Mae West I hate it when a woman gets all excited over nothing--and then marries him. -Cher Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange as hell. -Robin Morgan If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children." - they leave skid marks. -Rita Rudner Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises so$ pretty good questions. -Woody Allen Nothing so stirs a man's conscience or excites his curiosity as a woman's silence. -Thomas Hardy The difference between sex and love is, sex relieves tension and love cau$ it. -Woody Allen Only decent girls keep a diary. The others don't have the time. -- Tallulah Bankhead To err is human, but it feels divine. -- Mae West A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, an excellent conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you. -- Lisa Kirk As soon as Adam had the chance, he blamed women. -- Nancy Astor It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to turn him into a fool. -- Helen Rowland Behind any man of success stands a baffled woman. -- Maryon Pearson You have to kiss an awful lot of frogs before you find a prince. -- Klotter, London When a man makes a woman his wife, it is the greatest compliment he can give her. And usually the last. -- Helen Rowland When a man gives his wife flowers for no apparent reason - it has it's reasons. -- Molly McGee A halo has to fall only a few inches to become a noose. --- Farmers Almanac An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space" A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. --- Emerson All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. -- Jane Wagner 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton I've found thats it's not good to talk about your troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad your having trouble. --- Tommy LaSorda Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. --- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln Oh, what tangled webs we weave When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Scott The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. --Lincoln The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great mor$ crises maintain their neutrality. - Dante The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. -Ibsen The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil" There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. -- Richard Davisson There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -Goethe You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -- Booker T. Washington "Give me a place to sit, and I'll watch." -- friend of Archimedes It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. -- P.G. Wodehouse We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. -- Will Rogers Moral principles can never be compromised; they can only be abandoned. J.G.H. Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from yo$ own. You may both be wrong. -Dandemis If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for t$ own good. -Kin Hubbard The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to $ taken seriously. -- Hubert Humphrey