We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems. This is the day for firm decisions! Or is it? Remember, the more engineering projects there are, the more products there will be. -- Richard F. Moore What this country needs is a transmission that will shift the blame. -- Louis Ginsberg Smile, it makes the world wonder what you are up to. Deriving sustenance from emotion is not unknown in the galaxy. And fear is among the strongest and most violent of the emotions. -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold," stardate 3615.4. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton A true victory requirest at the very least an antagonist and a battle;anything less is but a takeover. Clever men are good, but they're not the best. -- Thomas Carlyle When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place. J.W. von Goethe I think, therefore I am... I think. "In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable." Winston Curchill, of Montgomery The man who runs may fight again. Man who bites bread or eats peas with knife is lost creature. Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you. If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. STANLEY GARN Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. G J Nathan In Boston, it is illegal to hold frog-jumping contests in nightclubs. One will not have needed the future perfect in one's entire life. Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Mark Twain All I can think of is a platter of organic PRUNE CRISPS being trampled by an army of swarthy, Italian LOUNGE SINGERS... -- Zippy the Pinhead You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. -- J. D. Salinger Beware of low flying butterflies. The shortest answer is doing the thing. That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. Schapiro's Explanation: The grass is always greener on the other side -- but that's because they use more manure. Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides All power corrupts, but we need electricity. Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets. "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations" - Thomas Jefferson Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. -- Ambrose Bierce If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. -- John F. Kennedy How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him. Alienation can be fun. Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. -- Miguel de Cervantes It is the nature of our species to be free. -- Kirk, "Metamorphosis," stardate 3219.8. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) (1809-1894) Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots. It is the natural order of things. Nothing can alter it. The strong take, the weak surrender. -- Sepp von Plum In 1945 bakers went on strike. They wanted more dough. -- "On This Day in History" Whistler's Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.