If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli
The past is never dead, it is not even past. ~William Faulkner
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ~Lord Jeffrey
Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. ~Huxtable Pippey
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. ~Anna Gould
A man's library is a sort of harem. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will
I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
He who sings frightens away his ills. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. ~Carl Van Vechten
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. ~Remy de Gourmont
Fear is just your feelings asking for a hug. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Joy Turner
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind. ~H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, Fourth Series, 1924
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott
And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet. ~Terri Guillemets
As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown
Those clouds are angels' robes. ~Charles Kingsley
Information is the currency of democracy. ~Thomas Jefferson
Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate. ~Author Unknown
The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993
We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ~Al Attles, on Nate Archibald
