After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Hindsight is an exact science.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
If at first you don't succeed you're running about average.
Even rats learn from experience.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
We are all special cases.
Man is a social animal who dislikes his fellow beings.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Prophecy is the wit of a fool.
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The more times you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
A component selected at random from a group having 99% reliability, will be a member of the 1% group.
Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.
A circuit protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.
A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong time.
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
Since prehistoric man, no battle has ever gone as planned.
A woman, like a good piece of music, should have a solid end.
A Woman is like a teabag -- you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
I'll worry about it tomorrow.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, obviously you have no conception of the magnitude of the problem.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you must be at least a foot shorter than them.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you'll be the tallest person in the room.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, obviously you must be the headsman.
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
I'm sorry, sir, that line is busy till Monday. Would you hold please?
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
How can I prove that I'm not crazy to people who are?
ARE WE HAVING A RELATIONSHIP -- Or just doing research on each other?
WONDERFUL! You have some of my favourite problems.
Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.
I'm not getting paid much for staying alive but it's good experience.
Use your own judgement then do as I say
Just when I was getting used to yesterday... Along came today.
There's nothing wrong with growing older, but where does it lead?
No wonder I feel so tired - I'm older now than I've ever been before.
It's hard to face tomorrow, but it's easier than facing no tomorrow.
Let's put the blame where it belongs: On somebody else.
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think!
I ALWAYS KNOW THE RIGHT THING TO SAY, after the right time to say it has passed.
HOW CAN I FAIL WHEN I HAVE NO PURPOSE?
It's hard to remain true to a changing self.
When I find true wisdom, I'll let you know,(if letting you know still seems important.)
I've learned to accept birth and death...but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.
My life has a superb cast,but I can't figure out the plot.
CAN THIS REALLY BE MY LIFE? or has there been some mistake?
It's easier to see how funny life is when somebody else is living it.
It's easy to come and go...The hard thing is to remain.
History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.
I'm looking for freedom - can you direct me?
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
If Karl Marx, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it ... it would have been much better.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Ketterling's Law: Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday,Wednesday,and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday,Thursday, and Saturday.
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
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.
To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Experience - a comb life gives you after you loose your hair.
A liberal is a person whose inerests aren't at stake, at the moment.
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Enough research will tend to support your theory - Murphy's Law of Research
No-one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
When you jump for joy, beware that no-one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
Experience enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Boys will be boys and so will a lot of middle aged men.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
God is not dead. He is alive and working on a much less ambitious project.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times,definitely will.
For most men life is a search for the proper manilla envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
If Presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country.
If its good, they'll stop making it.
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguised but elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguised but elderly scientists are then, after all, right.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of intellectual error.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
A good family is one that used to better.
Don't knock masturbation - its sex with someone I love.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The most popular labour saving device today is still a husband with money.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Designed with your mind in mind by people who have in mind what you should have in mind.
Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it himself.
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
In a crisis that forces a choice to be made among alternative courses of action, most people will choose the worst one possible.
If it happens, it must be possible.
By definition, when you are investigating the unknown - you do not know what you will find.
One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. Pope Pius XII
QUIT is a four letter word!
It figures. If there is Artificial Intelligence, then there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Reality is for people who can't cope with drugs.
Reality is for people who can't cope with fantasy.
Reality is for people who can't cope with science fiction.
The way to a man's heart is through his veins.
Man and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Rule 1: The boss is always right. Rule 2: When the boss is wrong, refer to rule 1.
Cynicism -- the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
After all is said and done, sit down.
Egotism is the drug that soothes the pain of stupidity.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it.
The validity of a science is its ability to predict.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
You cannot dream yourself into character; you must forge it for yourself.
Diplomacy ... the art of restraining power.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the cheques.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
Distance lends enhancement to the view.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
It often shows a fine command of a language to say nothing.
An intelligence test often shows how smart one would have been not to take it.
Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom.
A short saying contains much wisdom.
Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
There is no time like the pleasant.
Willpower is the ability to eat one salted peanut.
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
A house is not a home.
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there are no rivers.
Only God can make random selections.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
Justice: A decision in your favour.
The decision is maybe and that's final.
It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people.
Impartial: Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
Some do, some don't. Some will, some won't. I might.
Flappity, floppity, flip, The mouse on the mobius strip; The strip revolved, The mouse dissolved In a chronodimensional skip.
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.
Some people in this department wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
I would rather suffer defeat than have cause to be ashamed of victory.
Dignity is like a top hat. Neither is very much use when you are standing on it.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
He who shouts the loudest has the floor.
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
There are those that say, and those that do.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Goldenstern's Rules: 1. Always hire a rich attorney 2. Never buy from a rich salesman.
First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books!
It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences -- if you have none, someone will make one for you.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
"Humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."
Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.
In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
1. Nobody whom you ask for help will see it. 2. The first person who stops by, whose advice you really don't want to hear, will see it immediately.
Chicken Little was right.
Air is water with holes in it
POLITICIAN: From the Greek 'poly' ("many") and the French'tete' ("head" or "face," as in 'tete-a-tete': head to head or face to face). Hence 'polytetien', a person of two or more faces.
I like work...I can sit and watch it for hours.
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
Death is all in the mind. Once you're dead you forget all about it.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Suicide stunts your growth.
Old chemists never die - they just fail to react.
Frisbeetarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up the on roof and gets stuck.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
GOD IS DEAD - Nietzsche NIETZSCHE IS DEAD - God
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
If life must not be taken too seriously--then so neither must death.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Everything comes to him who waits, among other things, death.
If I must go into eternity, I'd prefer to go by the scenic route.
Eventually, I hope I'll learn to face death - if I live long enough.
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
Life is hard and then you die.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out if it alive.
Death is Nature's way of recycling human beings.
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Law of the Perversity of Nature:You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.
Corrupt: In politics, holding an office of trust or profit.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon.
There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.
Only adults have difficulty with childproof caps.
All my friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane.
Necessity is a mother.
Life was not meant to be easy.
Any simple problem can be made insolvable if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
A real person has two reasons for doing anything...a good reason and the real reason.
The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
"One planet is all you get."
Ink: A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
If you have to hate, hate gently
Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
Look after the molehills, and the mountains will look after themselves.
What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe? Everything he says is wrong...GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes..."
A penny saved is ridiculous.
Harvard Law: Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
You can't fall off the floor.
Don't order a drink for the road, because the road is already laid out.
Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics.
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor.
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how good you look playing!
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
You can't underestimate the power of fear.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
I could prove God statistically. - GEORGE GALLUP
Anyone can hate. It costs to love.
The expert is a person who avoids the small errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -but thats the way to bet.
Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
Nobody notices when things go right.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.
'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
You don't have to explain something you never said.
There is no remedy for sex but more sex.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history.
X-rated movies are all alike...the only thing they leave to the imagination is the plot.
Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.
Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
"He's just a politician trying to save both his faces..."
Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued.
Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Don't force it; get a larger hammer.
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
If there is a wrong way to do something, most people will do it every time.
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions.
Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
Armadillo: to provide weapons to a Spanish pickle.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Oh don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and none goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -- Did you ever try buying them without money?
Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
If you wants to get elected president, you've got to think up some memorable homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it, even if they don't know what it means.
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
Don't get mad -- get even.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there is always a future in Computer Maintenance.
Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
$100 invested at 7% interest for 100 years will become $100,000, at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.
Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably parked.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Majority: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach. Those who cannot teach -- administrate.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad its not a fence.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
SEMINARS: From 'semi' and 'arse', hence, any half-assed discussion.
Don't believe everything you hear or you say.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry.
Incumbent: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
Afternoon: That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.
One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet when well oiled.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
The number of licorice gumballs you get out of a gumball machine increases in direct proportion to how much you hate licorice.
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
(Who will watch the Guardians)
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns...He should be drawn and quoted!
When one does not know what to say, it is a time to be silent.
When I am right nobody remembers...When I am wrong nobody forgets!
If you can't tie good knots... tie many.
A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Your not knowing a mans purpose does not mean he is confused.
Yesterday is a dream, Tomorrow is a vision, Today is a bitch.
Failure teaches success.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool Than to open it an remove all doubt.
Give him a fish, he eats today teach him to fish, he eats for the rest of his life.
Money wouldn't be so important if everybody didn't want some
Murphys Law: If something can go wrong...It will, and at the worst possible time.
TO DO IS TO BE-Socrates, TO BE IS TO DO-Sartre, DO BE DO BE DO-Sinatra
Walk softly but carry a big stick.
God may give you seeds but he won't plant them for you.
When I rest, I rust.
A Wise Man can see more from the bottom of a well than a Fool can see from the top of a mountain.
If they throw lemons, Make lemonade.
Money is round and rolls away.
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Fool me once, shame on you - Fool me twice, shame on me!
Moderate riches will carry you..if you have more, you must carry them.
Don't insult the alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Too many cookies will make you fat!!!
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand
Invention is the mother of necessity.
In nature there are neither rewards, nor punishments -- there are consequences.
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
The wind and waves are always on the side of the best navigators.
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Back of every achievement is a proud wife, and a surprised mother-in-law.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
The only way round is through.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Middle age is youth without it's levity. And old age without decay.
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.
'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical;
change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
There are only two things a child will share willingly--communicable diseases and his mother's age.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
One man with courage makes a majority.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
To lose Is to learn.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without an education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
There is nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
The scalded cat fears even cold water.
An adult is a deteriorated child.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Success has made failures of many men.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than live up to them.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
When policy fails try thinking.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
A synonym is the word you use when you can't spell the right one and therefore can't find it in the dictionary.
Among civilized nations reason has always been an occupational hazard.
Wisdom is knowing when you cannot be wise.
Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.
Wit is cultured insolence.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Lord give me chastity - but not yet.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Defining and analyzing humour is a pastime of humorless people.
Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
Remember the poor - it costs nothing.
Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Chess is about as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.
I speak Spanish to God, French to women, Italian to men, and German to my horse.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
How pleasant it is to have money.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Co-existence - what the farmer does with the turkey until Thanksgiving.
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
No man is a hero to his valet.
Life is an incurable disease.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
My idea of an agreeable person, is a person who agrees with me.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
All mankind loves a lover.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Love of beauty is Taste...The creation of beauty is Art.
The end of the human race is that it will die of civilization.
Weed - a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
There's a difference between beauty and charm.A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
He talked with more claret than clarity.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man.
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
Passions are fashions.
...the difference between town and country is mostly the view.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift - is taxes.
Men just don't seem to jump off the bridge for big reasons; they usually do so for little ones.
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Fitzgerald: The rich are different from us. Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.
The bigger they come the harder they fall.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
One of the greatest labour-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the ONLY sacred thing.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
All a man needs to be elected President is the kind of profile that looks good on a postage stamp.
If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.
Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone ELSE does the thinking.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man.
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
All things are only transitory.
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society.
Nature didn't make us perfect so she did the next best thing. She made us blind to our faults.
Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
What's not worth doing is not worth doing well.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
They told me it would disrupt my life less if I got killed sooner.
Courage is grace under pressure.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Only the young die good.
Manuscript: Something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
There is nothing women hate so much as to see men selfishly enjoying themselves without the solace of feminine society.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Truth is with the victor - who, as you know, also controls the historians.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive.
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to put the other somewhat higher.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
For a man to pretend to understand women is bad manners; for him really to understand them is bad morals.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
To teach is to learn.
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
There are three sides to every story - yours, mine, and all that lie between.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
We cannot unthink unless we are insane.
Scientists are Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
Levity is the soul of wit.
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche.
Not all women give most of their waking thoughts to the problem of pleasing men. Some are married.
It's easier to be original and foolish, than original and wise.
A pun is the lowest form of humour - when you don't think of it first.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Statistics - figures used as arguments.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
While doubt stands still, confidence can erect a skyscraper.
By virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
I try all things; I achieve what I can.
In adversity a man is saved by hope.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking.
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Having a daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have the head ... or what.
I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Every man who possesses power is impelled to abuse it.
After all there is but one race - humanity.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Economy: Cutting down other people's wages.
If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
When you win, nothing hurts.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
The thoughtless are rarely wordless.
If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth - to see it like it is, and tell it like it is - to find the truth, to speak the truth, and live the truth.
The right man, in the right place, at the right time - can steal millions.
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are:'Check enclosed.'
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Never tell people 'how' to do things. Tell them 'what' to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife.
There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
They talk most who have the least to say.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Actions speak louder than words.
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows.
The world is divided into men who accomplish things and those who get all the credit.
What worth has beauty if it be not seen?
When saving for old age, be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
My father, a good man, told me, 'Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.'
I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
Foreign Aid - taxing poor people in rich countries for the benefit of rich people in poor countries.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Skepticism, like chastity should not be relinquished too readily.
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Remember when we all wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor? Well, now I do.
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
Rest: Death after life.
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
Everything depends, Nothing is always, Everything is sometimes.
The optimum committee has no members.
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
Celibacy is not hereditary.
The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it.
Aquadextrous, adj.:Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.
Critic, n.:A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobodytries to please him.
Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined.
Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans.
A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
If a string has one end, then it has another end.
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
Etymology, n.:Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
A chubby man with a white beard and a red suit will approach you soon. Avoid him. He's a Commie.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
"It's bad luck to be superstitious."
You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the first and last month in advance.
When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.
Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister.
1. Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check. 2. A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat. 3. There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.
Managing six first-rate programmers, a challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
If you're happy, you're successful.
Actor:"I'm a smash hit. Why, yesterday during the last act, I had everyone glued in their seats!" Critic: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Clever of you to think of it!"
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."
I like your game but we have to change the rules.
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
"God gives burdens; also shoulders"
It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings ...
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.--
Nothing recedes like success.
Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline).
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to.
I don't believe in astrology. But then I'm an Aquarius, and Aquarians don't believe in astrology.
The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of a soda can, when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
"I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
Behold the warranty ... the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
That secret you've been guarding, isn't.
They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian."
The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on.
In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily canceled.
If only one could get that wonderful feeling of accomplishment without having to accomplish anything.
If it's Tuesday, this must be someone else's fortune.
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
You always find something in the last place you look.
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
Garter, n.:An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country.
If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, give me a call.
Think honk if you're a telepath.
Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret.
You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture.
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
You're at the end of the road again.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
Chicago, n.: Where the dead still vote ... early and often!
Character Density: the number of very weird people in the office.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. --
Truthful, adj.: Dumb and illiterate.
God made the integers; all else is the work of Man.
"A witty saying proves nothing."
The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Give me the Luxuries, and the Hell with the Necessities!
People are always available for work in the past tense.
It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
Immortality -- a fate worse than death.
Pig, n.: An animal (Porcus omnivorous) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it balks at pig.
Genius, n.: A chemist who discovers a laundry additive that rhymes with"bright".
Politics is like coaching a football team.You have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
"Uncle Cosmo ... why do they call this a word processor?" "It's simple, Skyler ... you've seen what food processors do to food, right?"
When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"
What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
No good deed goes unpunished.
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.
The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.
Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
As Zeus said to Narcissus, "Watch yourself."
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
He who Laughs, Lasts.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
Manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need in in the others.
If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it.
Cocaine -- the thinking man's Dristan.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."
Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's new lover.
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards -- only physics and war hold him in check. And also the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
It is better to kiss an avocado than to get in a fight with an aardvark
Push something hard enough and it will fall over.
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
The fact that it works is immaterial.
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Be a better psychiatrist and the world will beat a psychopath to your door.
What does it mean if there is no fortune for you?
Real Programmers think better when playing GAMEZ.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
"Now is the time for all good men to come to."
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse.
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
The shortest distance between two points is off the wall.
What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!
The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Kin, n.: An affliction of the blood
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Optimization hinders evolution.
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
Egotist, n.: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse.
You may be recognized soon. Hide.
Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all."
The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
"You'll never be the man your mother was!"
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it is none of my business, but --" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.
Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Commitment, n.:Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, the pig was committed.
Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
"Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence"
Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.
Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.
SOFTWARE -- formal evening attire for female computer analysts.
"My weight is perfect for my height -- which varies"
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.
We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
Do what comes naturally now. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
God did not create the world in 7 days; he screwed around for 6 days and then pulled an all-nighter.
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles.
Collaboration, n.: A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
If God had intended Man to Walk, He would have given him Feet.
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but is always polite to traffic cops.
The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.
Graduate life -- it's not just a job, it's an indenture.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.-
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they will find an easier way to do it.
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
Cleanliness is next to impossible.
May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!
With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.
The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.
Taxes, n.: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an extension.
In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.
There are three ways to get something done: 1. Do it yourself. 2. Hire someone to do it for you. 3. Forbid your kids to do it.
Teamwork is essential -- it allows you to blame someone else.
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
Eggnog is a traditional holiday drink invented by the English. Many people wonder where the word "eggnog" comes from. The first syllable comes from the English word "egg", meaning "egg". I don't know where the "nog" comes from.
To make eggnog, you'll need rum, whiskey, wine gin and, if they are in season, eggs...
"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation."
Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.
The grass is always greener on the other side -- but that's because they use more manure.
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
There's no future in time travel.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.
Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
... And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man
... if forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead ...
A recent study has found that concentrating on difficult off-screen objects, such as the faces of loved ones, causes eye strain in computer scientists. Researchers into the phenomenon cite the added concentration needed to "make sense" of such unnatural three dimensional objects ...
All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the solutions.
When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop?
Political T.V. commercials prove one thing: some candidates can tell all their good points and qualifications in just 30 seconds.
The world is coming to an end. Please log off.
Avoid overly pretentious job titles such as "Lord of the Realm, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India" or "Director of Corporate Planning."
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
May a Misguided Platypus lay its Eggs in your Jockey Shorts
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to ..... to ........ uh ..............
Never drink coke in a moving elevator. The elevator's motion coupled with the chemicals in coke produce hallucinations. People tend to change into lizards and attack without warning, and large bats usually fly in the window. Additionally, you begin to believe that elevators have windows.
The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you, "There's a time for work and a time for play,"never find the time for play?
Bug: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?
If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.
Q: Why do mountain climbers rope themselves together? A:To prevent the sensible ones from going home.
Insanity is the final defense ... It's hard to get a refund when the salesman is sniffing your crotch and baying at the moon.
Try to be the best of whatever you are, even if what you are is no good.
"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen. At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers.
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's "St.Matthew Passion" on a ukelele.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
Pretend to spank me -- I'm a pseudo-masochist!
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.
A large number of installed systems work by fiat. That is,they work by being declared to work.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence. See also "vacuum tube".
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer, then you find there is nothing in it.
Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life forms, and they'll call you crazy.
Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
Bizarreness is the essence of the exotic
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!" "Why, what did she tell you?""I don't know, I didn't listen!"
Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
There are some micro-organisms that exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals. When exposed to light they undergo photosynthesis; and when the lights go out, they turn into animals. But then again, don't we all?
Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate and captain of your soul.
Think twice before speaking, but don't say "think think click click".
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he?
Finagling Factor: That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.
Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?
Worst Vegetable of the Year: The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year.
... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed.
Overdrawn? But I still have checks left!
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.
The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Love is sentimental measles.
Put your Nose to the Grindstone! Amalgamated Plastic Surgeons and Toolmakers, Ltd.
New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and his wife most often reminds him to act it.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right.
"In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable."
May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a Thousand Caramels.
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
Truth will be out this morning. (Which may really mess things up.)
Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
What is a magician but a practising theorist?
Sooner or later you must pay for your sins. (Those who have already paid may disregard this fortune).
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
In order to discover anything, you must be looking for something.
If you wish to make an improved product, you must already be engaged in making an inferior one.
Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of movement unless it was to avoid responsibility with?
If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.
Surprise due today. Also the rent.
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.
In case of injury notify your superior immediately. He'll kiss it and make it better.
Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a thing he tells you.
"It's easier said than done." ... and if you don't believe it, try proving that it's easier done than said, and you'll see that "it's easier said that `it's easier done than said' than it is done", which really proves that "it's easier said than done".
The National Short-Sleeved Shirt Association says: Support your right to bare arms!
Honk if you hate bumper stickers that say "Honk if ..."
The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat
Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless.
Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it.
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword.
I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
President Thieu says he'll quit if he doesn't get more than 50% of the vote. In a democracy, that's not called quitting.-
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers.
The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train.
College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."
A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?
Anoint, v.:To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
The revolution will not be televised.
No problem is so large it can't be fit in somewhere.
Elevators smell different to midgets
Noncombatant, n.: A dead Quaker.
Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
Basic, n.: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
If I kiss you, that is a psychological interaction. On the other hand, if I hit you over the head with a brick,that is also a psychological interaction. The difference is that one is friendly and the other is not so friendly. The crucial point is if you can tell which is which.
I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Did you know ... That no-one ever reads these things?
UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity? If a politician fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, it would be a calamity."
Today is the first day of the rest of the mess.
"Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!"
"One planet is all you get."
Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field ofendeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution.
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Do molecular biologists wear designer genes?
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Laetrile is the pits
You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
According to my best recollection, I don't remember.
User n.: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him.
They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
You have taken yourself too seriously.
"The pyramid is opening!" "Which one?" "The one with the ever-widening hole in it!"
"How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All"
Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face.
Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring.
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously?
Adore, v.: To venerate expectantly.
You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash.
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
Beware of low-flying butterflies.
Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
On-line, adj.:The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else.
Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.
He had that rare weird electricity about him -- that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally."
Artistic ventures highlighted. Rob a museum.
If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it.
Snacktrek, n.: The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh
Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting for a dial tone.
You're never too old to become younger.
"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Bill Gates has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know what's wrong."
F u cn rd ths u cnt spl wrth a dm!
"Cleveland? Yes, I spent a week there one day."
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another -- it's one damn thing over and over.
It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.--
Any woman is a volume if one knows how to read her.
Adolescence, n.: The stage between puberty and adultery.
"I drink to make other people interesting."
Distress, n.:A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
Children are natural mimic who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
Accident, n.:A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
When in doubt, use brute force.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous."
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
Office Automation, n.:The use of computers to improve efficiency by removing anyone you would want to talk with over coffee.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
A billion here, a couple of billion there -- first thing you know it adds up to be real money.
Binary, adj.:Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.
Notes for a ballet, "The Spell": ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman --unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes ...
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
Science is true. Don't be misled by facts.
Surprise your boss. Get to work on time.
Line Printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
May the Fleas of a Thousand Camels infest one of your Erogenous Zones.
Boy, n.:A noise with dirt on it.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Pascal, n.:A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
Illinois isn't exactly the land that God forgot -- it's more like the land He's trying to ignore.
I never fail to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does.
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation.
"Grub first, then ethics."
Ass, n.: The masculine of "lass".
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
Variables won't; constants aren't.
Give thought to your reputation. Consider changing name and moving to a new town.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
... at least I thought I was dancing, 'til somebody stepped on my hand.
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
"Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles."
"The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune."
"They're just jealous because they don't have three wise men and a virgin in the whole organization."
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Lactomangulation, n.:Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.
"Arguments with furniture are rarely productive."
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am the mother of all things, and all things should wear a sweater.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Your lucky number has been disconnected.
When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.
There's always one more bug.
Stupid, n.:Losing $25 on the game and $25 on the instant replay.
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe.
Xerox never comes up with anything original.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
Xerox does it again and again and again and ...
"Every time I think I know where it's at, they move it."
Every 4 seconds a woman has a baby. Our problem is to find this woman and stop her.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his.
You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something.
The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.
Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't have a lucky day this year.
"I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it."
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.
Yes, but every time I try to see things your way, I get a headache.
When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
If the weather is extremely bad, church attendance will be down. If the weather is extremely good, church attendance will be down. If the bulletin covers are in short supply, however, church attendance will exceed all expectations.
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?-
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Census Taker to Housewife: Did you ever have the measles,and, if so, how many?
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to school.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
These days the necessities of life cost you about three times what they used to, and half the time they aren't even fit to drink.
Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them.
Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy.
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units.
Furbling, v.: Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.
Forgetfulness, n.:A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Corruption is not the No.1 priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime.-
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
Reporter, n.:A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer."
[Nuclear war] ... may not be desirable.
Tired of finding that other people are helping themselves to your good liquor at BYOB parties? Take along a candle, which you insert and light after you've opened the bottle. No one ever expects anything drinkable to be in a bottle which has a candle stuck in its neck.
Dentist, n.:A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. The Universe spines the bulb, and the Zen master stays out of the way.
"Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow."
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... sulking and nausea.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Idiot Box, n.:The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper--
Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students,and parking for the faculty.
President Reagan has noted that there are too many economic pundits and forecasters and has decided on an excess prophets tax.
He is a very modest man. And with reason.
When does summertime come to Minnesota, you ask? Well, last year, I think it was a Tuesday.
There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert.
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.
"This is a country where people are free to practice their religion, regardless of race, creed, color, obesity, or number of dangling keys ..."
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
"You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do."
"The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them."
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense"
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks ... Which practically conceal its sex. ... I think it clever of the turtle ... In such a fix to be so fertile.
Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.
Cold, adj.:When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own pockets.
You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
Lunatic Asylum, n.:The place where optimism most flourishes.
Whatever happens to you, it will previously have happened to everyone you know, only more so.
Never draw what you can copy. Never copy what you can trace. Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.
Magpie, n.:A bird whose theiving disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.
If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
The bigger the theory, the better.
The experiment may be considered a success if no more than 50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to obtain a correspondence with the theory.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book. Corollary: If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.
While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very reassuring to know that it's still there.
Majority, n.:That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetency
"And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?"asked the father of his little son. "Diet."
Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails.
Accuracy, n.:The vice of being right
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
"It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either."
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
God is real, unless declared integer.
Every program is a part of some other program, and rarely fits.
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Q:Why do ducks have flat feet? A:To stamp out forest fires. Q:Why do elephants have flat feet? A:To stamp out flaming ducks.
How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
"What do you give a man who has everything?" the pretty teenager asked her mother. "Encouragement, dear," she replied.
Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.
You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfool proof.
The one who has the gold makes the rules.
Please, won't somebody tell me what diddie-wa-diddie means?
Chemicals, n.:Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
"If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.
Virtue is its own punishment.
No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c)believe it happened according to his own pet theory.
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
The rain it raineth on the just... And also on the unjust fella,... But chiefly on the just, because... The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
Concept, n.:Any "idea" for which an outside consultant billed you more than $25,000.
Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
"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."
Heavy, adj.:Seduced by the chocolate side of the force.
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
186,282 miles per second:It isn't just a good idea, it's the law!
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
The first myth of management is that it exists.
Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within theorganization.
Spouse, n.:Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
Die, v.:To stop sinning suddenly.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -- Aristotle
Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.
More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
One seldom sees a monument to a committee.
If life is a stage, I want some better lighting.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night,
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy.
If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.
"We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later."
Things will get worse before they get better. - Who said things would get better?
Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him, that's where the money is.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The only problem with being a man of leisure is that you can never stop and take a rest.
An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.
Oh don't the days seem lank and long... When all goes right and none goes wrong,... And isn't your life extremely flat... With nothing whatever to grumble at!
Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it.
"You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't."
Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.
All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
You or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
Travel important today; Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow.
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger hands.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ...
You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do.
The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
Boss, n.: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the Middle Ages the words "boss" and "botch" were largely synonymous, except that boss, in addition to meaning "a supervisor of workers" also meant "an ornamental stud."
Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Hand, n.:A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Save energy: be apathetic.
Encyclopedia Salesmen: Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.
Avoid reality at all costs.
I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
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Absence makes the heart go wander.
Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.
Someone will try to honk your nose today.
Do you know what the death rate around here is? One per person.
"I am not an Economist. I am an honest man!"
The end of the world will occur at 3:00 p.m., this Friday, with symposium to follow.
Human cardiac catheterization was introduced by Werner Forssman in 1929. Ignoring his department chief, and tying his assistant to an operating table to prevent his interference, he placed a uretheral catheter into a vein in his arm, advanced it to the right atrium [of his heart], and walked upstairs to the x-ray department where he took the confirmatory x-ray film. In 1956, Dr. Forssman was awarded the Nobel Prize.
If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.
The Pig, if I am not mistaken,... Gives us ham and pork and Bacon... Let others think his heart is big,... I think it stupid of the Pig.
Chicken Soup, n.:An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother.
The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when he is already in the company of: (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3) a better looking and richer male friend.
Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which,unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
Barometer, n.:An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer crashes.
Tact, n.:The unsaid part of what you're thinking.
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans,acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!!
Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.
How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? None: "We'll fix it in software."
How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? None: "We'll document it in the manual."
How many tech writers does it take to change a lightbulb? None: "The user can work it out."
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
One thing the inventors can't seem to get the bugs out of is fresh paint.
This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room.
The worst actress in the company is always the manager's wife.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
Two percent of zero is almost nothing.
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.
Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
"Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!!"
Accordion, n.:A bagpipe with pleats.
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement.
Stay away from hurricanes for a while.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like.
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."--
How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to hold the girrafe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.
If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Alliance, n.: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Everyone talks about apathy, but no one does anything about it.
"Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."
It is now pitch dark. If you proceed, you will likely fall into a pit.
Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Information Center, n.: A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to tell you why you cannot have the information you require.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Sweater, n.:A garment worn by a child when its mother feels chilly.
Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days.
You will be surprised by a loud noise.
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.
In America, any boy may become president and I suppose that's just one of the risks he takes.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
I hate quotations.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T after you.
Take it easy, we're in a hurry.
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Get Revenge! Live long enough to be a problem for your children!
Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo.
Good day to let down old friends who need help.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Anything is good and useful if it's made of chocolate.
Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.
Real Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Condense soup, not books!
People usually get what's coming to them ... unless it's been mailed.
Go 'way! You're bothering me!
Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.
After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or LosAngeles.
Bank error in your favor. Collect $200.
Linus:I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today. Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.
Keep you Eye on the Ball, Your Shoulder to the Wheel, Your Nose to the Grindstone, Your Feet on the Ground, Your Head on your Shoulders. Now ... try to get something DONE!
Absent, adj.:Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.
Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use of both hands. It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears.
The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.
Whatever became of eternal truth?
A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks.
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce"
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose your job. These economic downturns are very difficult to predict, but sophisticated econometric modeling houses like Data Resources and Chase Econometrics have successfully predicted 14 of the last 3 recessions.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
"If dolphins are so smart, why did Flipper work for television?"
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it
Nihilism should commence with oneself. Yes, but which self do you want to be?
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?"
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance.
If there is a wrong way to do something, most people will do it every time.
Dawn, n.:The time when men of reason go to bed.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Peace, n.:In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
"To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it?"
Only God can make random selections.
I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?
Automobile, n.:A four-wheeled vehicle that runs up hills and down pedestrians.
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
"Kirk to Enterprise -- beam down yeoman Rand and a six-pack."
"Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!"
She's genuinely bogus.
"His mind is like a steel trap -- full of mice"
Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city can never hope to acquire it.
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean,"not really".
Be different: conform.
You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself.
It works better if you plug it in.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not $19.95.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
Fakir, n:A psychologist whose charismatic data have inspired almost religious devotion in his followers, even though the sources seem to have shinnied up a rope and vanished.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I really hate this damned machine I wish that they would sell it. It never does quite what I want But only what I tell it.
Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots
How come only your friends step on your new white sneakers?
(1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved.
The opossum is a very sophisticated animal. It doesn't even get up until 5 or 6 pm.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand.
Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Labor, n.:One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.--
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
BLISS is ignorance
If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.-
If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Nothing is faster than the speed of light ...To prove this to yourself, try opening the refrigerator door before the light comes on.
Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes.
Vote anarchist
Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child -- if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
90% of everything is crud.
Polymer physicists are into chains.
When Marriage is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Inlaws.
BE ALERT!!!! (The world needs more lerts ...)
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
All laws are basically false.
"Don't say yes until I finish talking."
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Let us live!!! Let us love!!! Let us share the deepest secrets of our souls!!!... You first.
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Bore, n.:A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
It won't work.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
Men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Spirits were brave, men boldly split infinitives that no man had split before. Thus was the Empire forged.
"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets"
There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Question:Man Invented Alcohol, God Invented Grass.... Who do you trust?
There are no answers, only cross references.
"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up!"
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Mad, adj.:Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence ...
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on.
This person must be fired.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Predestination was doomed from the start.
What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
"These are DARK TIMES for all mankind's HIGHEST VALUES!" "These are DARK TIMES for FREEDOM and PROSPERITY!" "These are GREAT TIMES to put your money on BAD GUY to kick the CRAP out of MEGATON MAN!"
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. -- Norm Schryer
Mythology, n.: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Optimization hinders evolution.
Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
When all other means of communication fail, try words.
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change.
If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored.
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Anything labeled "NEW" and/or "IMPROVED" isn't. The label means the price went up. The label "ALL NEW", "COMPLETELY NEW", or "GREAT NEW" means the price went way up.
Miss, n.:A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.
"The voters have spoken, the bastards ..."
Self Test for Paranoia:You know you have it when you can't think of anything that's your own fault.
"Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree."
Easiest Color to Solve on a Rubik's Cube:
"Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence."
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Menu, n.:A list of dishes which the restaurant has just run out of.
Ingrate, n.:A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion.
Underlying Principle of Socio-Genetics:Superiority is recessive.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.
United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
The cow is nothing but a machine with makes grass fit for us people to eat.
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls ... if thou art in the bathtub, it tolls for thee.
Broad-mindedness, n.: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.
BULLWINKLE: "You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit."GENERAL: "What does that make YOU?" BULLWINKLE: "What else? An executive..."
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
Let He who taketh the Plunge Remember to return it by Tuesday.
Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer.
"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved"
"Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly."
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe.
California, n.:From Latin "calor", meaning "heat" (as in English "calorie" or Spanish "caliente"); and "fornia'" for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California,"the land of hot sex."
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.
It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.
"I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
"Heisenberg may have slept here"
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
He's the kind of guy, that, well, if you were ever in a jam he'd be there ... with two slices of bread and some chunky peanut butter.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Psychiatrists say that one out of four people are mentally ill. Check three friends. If they're ok, you're it.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.
Just remember: when you go to court, you are trusting your fate to twelve people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
Oh, well, I guess this is just going to be one of those lifetimes.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions.
The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.
When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you hold the hammer with both hands.
Bureaucrat, n.: A politician who has tenure.
Feel disillusioned? I've got some great new illusions ...
"This isn't right. This isn't even close enough to be called wrong."
There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.
2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for large values of 2.
If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.
You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic without looking to see whether the seeds move.
Quality Control, n.:The process of testing one out of every 1,000 units coming off a production line to make sure that at least one out of 100 works.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Mustgo, n.:Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so long it has become a science project.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
"Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral."
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
You can take all the impact that science considerations have on funding decisions at NASA, put them in the navel of a flea, and have room left over for a caraway seed.
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
Canada Post doesn't really charge 32 cents for a stamp. It's 2 cents for postage and 30 cents for storage.
When you need to knock on wood is when you realize that the world is composed of vinyl, naugahyde and aluminum.
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.
Losing your drivers' license is just God's way of saying "BOOGA, BOOGA!"
Accidents cause History.
The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Them that has, gets.
"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Monday, n.:In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes.
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
The steady state of disks is full.
And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
Once, adv.: Enough.
Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your chairs.
Trust everybody ... then cut the cards.
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Exceptions prove the rule ... and wreck the budget.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Quality assurance dosen't.
The tough part of a Data Processing Manager's job is that users don't really know what they want, but they know for certain what they don't want.
Exceptions always outnumber rules.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
He who hesitates is probably right.
The ideal resume will turn up one day after the position is filled.
If somthing is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.
One child is not enough, but two children are far too many.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the butter.
The bag that breaks is the one with the eggs.
When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear.When there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight.
The book you spent $20.95 for today will come out in paperback tomorrow.
The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.
You never want the one you can afford.
Never ask the barber if you need a haircut or a salesman if his is a good price.
If it says "one size fits all," it dosen't fit anyone.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.
Love letters, business contracts and money due you always arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent.
When you drop change at a vending machine, the pennies will fall nearby, while all other coins will roll out of sight.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
Experience is somthing you don't get until just after you need it.
Life can be only understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Interchangable parts won't.
No matter which way you go, it's uphill and against the wind.
If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.
Progress is made on alternative Fridays.
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
The hidden flaw never remains hidden.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either of them being made.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
When reviewing your notes for a test, the most important ones will be illegible.
A free agent is anything but.
The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
The one item you want is never the one on sale.
The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys.
If only one price can be obtained for a quotation, the price will be unreasonable.
