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- # Just a few demo-fortunes. Collect your own!
- Eat a live frog, every morning, and nothing worse will happen to
- you all day.
- I'll smoke when the pope's wife takes the pill.
- The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of
- knowledge.
- What is the biggest problem with implementing a Jimmy Carter simulator
- in 4K of core on a PDP8?
- Figuring out what to do with the other 2K.
- Designed with your mind in mind by people who have in mind what you
- should have in mind.
- Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
- Don't try to have the last word. You might get it.
- A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
- Person who falls in blast furnace is certain to feel overwrought.
- It's clever, but is it art?
- He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes.
- There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
- A bore is a person who talks so much about himself that you can't
- talk about yourself.
- A radical is a person with both feet firmly planted in the air.
- Lady A: Mr. C, you are quite drunk.
- Mr. C: And you are very ugly, but indisputably in the morning I
- will be quite sober.
- If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
- Death: to stop sinning suddenly.
- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
- Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.
- The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get
- up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
- It's a funny thing that when a person hasn't got anything on earth to
- worry about, it goes off and gets married.
- Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- Reality is good for you.
- ...in small doses.
- I give presents to the mother, but I think of the daughter.
- Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
- Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
- Every woman is wrong until they cry, and then they are right,
- instantly.
- Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!'.
- We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
- "All of the animals except man know that the principal business of
- life is to enjoy it."
- "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to
- know how to lie well."
- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
- A gentleman never heard the story before.
- Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
- "When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean
- conversation." --- Samuel Johnson
- PEOPLE are more fun than Anybody!
- To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
- The universe is laughing behind your back.
- A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
- Question:
- Man Invented Alcohol,
- God Invented Grass.
- Whom do you trust?
- How do you keep a turkey in suspense?
- I'll tell you tomorrow...
- When in doubt, try a small tactical nuclear weapon.
- Few people think more than two or three times a year; I
- have made an international reputation for myself by
- thinking once or twice a week. -- George Bernard Shaw
- Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say
- enough on that subject.
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- PARKINSON'S LAW: Work expands to fill the time available for its
- completion.
- MURPHY'S LAW: If something can go wrong, it will.
- WEILER'S LAW: Nothing is impossible for the man who does not
- have to do it himself.
- FINAGLE'S LAW: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it
- makes it worse.
- FIRST LAW OF EXPERT ADVICE:
- Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
- RUDIN'S LAW: In a crisis that forces a choice to be made among
- alternative courses of action, most people will choose the worst one
- possible.
- UNNAMED LAW: If it happens, it must be possible.
- Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
- GUMPERSON'S LAW: The outcome of a given desired probability will be
- inverse to the degree of desirability.
- (After a salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the
- month than you had before.)
- (The more a recruit knows about a given subject, the better chance
- he has of being assigned to something else.)
- CUTLER WEBSTER'S LAW: There are two sides to every argument unless a
- man is personally involved, in which case there is only one.
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