RANMSG.TXT 242 XAV eht edisni deppart ma I !pleH A cow eats without a knife. A finite point has no meaning unless it has an infinite reference point. Jean-Paul Sartre A king's castle is his home. A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. A man who turns green has eschewed protein. A man without God is like a fish out of water. A nose by any other name would smell as sweet. A person is awarded a medal for disregarding safety in saving someone. A person need not worry about his future. A person should try to divide his time evenly to keep others happy. A person should value useful qualities in one who loves him. A person shouldn't get involved with people or situations that can't bear inspection. A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs. A stitch in time saves nine. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn. A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well. An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance. Beauty and harmony are as necessary to you as the very breath of life. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. Beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. Bedfellows make strange politicians. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Better to use medicines at the outset than at the last moment. Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- MAE WEST. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -- Thoreau Beware of friends who are false and deceitful. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. By following the good, you learn to be good. Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. Creditors have much better memories than debtors. Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face. Did you hear about the drunk in the movie Earthquake? He was the only one who could walk in a straight line. Do not clog intellect's sluices with knowledge of questionable uses. Domestic happiness and faithful friends. Did you hear about the moron that broke his arm raking leaves? He fell out of the tree. Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. Draw your salary before spending it. Economy makes men independent. Enjoy your life; be pleasant and gay, like the birds in May. Even a hawk is an eagle among crows. Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. Every purchase has its price. Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment. Everyone has the right to be wrong, but he abuses the privilege. Everything bows to success, even grammar. Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy. For people who like that kind of book, that is the kind of book they will like. Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking repentance. Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals. Go Cowboys!!!! Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose. He was so narrow-minded he could see through a keyhole with two eyes. He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. He who has a shady past knows that bad guys finish last. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. He who invents adages for others to peruse takes along rowboat when going on cruise. He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. He who laughs last probably doesn't understand the joke. Help, help!!! the Martians are in the computer room and they....... Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason. His life was formal; his actions seemed ruled with a ruler. His mouth is so wide that he can eat a banana sideways or sing duets with himself. How many "coming men" has one known! Where on earth do they all go to? How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent. How you look depends on where you go. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise. I don't remember ever having had the itch, and yet scratching is one of nature's sweet pleasures, and so handy. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours. I love my job; it's the work I hate. I must have slipped a disk - my pack hurts. I never fail to convice an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. Idleness is the holiday of fools. If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. If it pours before seven, it has rained by eleven. If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on vacation. If you always postpone pleasure you will never have it. Quit work and play for once. If you continually give you will continually have. If you make a mistake you should right it immediately to the best of your ability. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you. If you suspect a man, don't employ him. If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. If you wish, You will have an opportunity. If you would keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. It is a poor judge who cannot award a prize. It is better to wear out than to rust out. It is easier to run down a hill than up one. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree. It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. It takes both a weapon, and two people, to commit a murder. It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. It's a poor workman who blames his tools. It's clever, but is it art? It's later than you think, the joint Russian-American space mission has already begun. It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory keeps all its data in an old gray trunk. Lend money to a bad debtor and he will hate you. Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday. Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again. Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. Lonely is a man without love. Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet. Love is the best sweetener of tea. Love is in the offing. Be affectionate to one who adores you. Love is sentimental measles. Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. Make a wish, it might come true. Make new friends but keep the old ones; One is silver and the other's gold. Man and wife make one fool. Man's horizons are bounded by his vision. Many a family tree needs trimming. Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket bibles which are on very very thin paper. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -- VOLTAIRE Massachusetts has the best politicians money can buy. Matrimony is the root of all evil. Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples. MERKIN's Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the trend will continue. Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca. Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. Misster, do you vant to buy a duck. Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure. Money cannot buy love, nor even friendship. Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love. Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years. My cup hath runneth'd over with love. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Never call a man a fool; borrow from him. Never drink from your finger bowl - it contains only water. Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it. One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. Only someone with nothing to be sorry for smiles back at the rear of an elephant. Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. People who take cat naps don't usually sleep in a cat's cradle. People will buy anything that's one to a customer. Preserve the old, but know the new. Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword. Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth. Put your trust in those who are worthy. Raising pet electric eels is gaining a lot of current popularity. Reputation: what others are not thinking about you. Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone. Satire is what closes in New Haven. Share your happiness with others today. She's learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words. Show your affection, which will probably meet with pleasant response. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Some men are discovered; others are found out. Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow. Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down. Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you. Stop searching forever. Happiness is unattainable. Swap read error. You lose your mind. THE PROGRAMMERS' CHEER? -- SHIFT TO THE LEFT, SHIFT TO THE RIGHT! POP UP, PUSH DOWN, BYTE, BYTE, BYTE! Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see better than he can think. The basic philosophic question question is that something is there rather than not being there. Jean-Paul Sartre The best prophet of the future is the past. The best things in life are free. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home. The haves get more, the have-nots die. The heart is wiser than the intellect. The light of a hundred stars does not equal the light of the moon. The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others. The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't. The only thing history teaches us is that we don't learn from history. The only rose without thorns is friendship. The plural of spouse is spice. The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The universe is laughing behind your back. The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf. There are few people more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so. There are many people today who literally do not have a close personal friend. There are more old drunkards than old doctors. There are more ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream. There are three things I have always loved and never understood - art, music, and women. There is always someone worse off than yourself. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. There's at least one fool in every married couple. There's so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me. Think twice before speaking. But don't say "think think click click". This file will self-destruct in five minutes. Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do. To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the competent. To do is to be - Nietzsche To be is to do - Sartre Do be do be do - Sinatra To give happines is to deserve happiness. To keep your friends treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them often. To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. To refuse praise is to seek praise twice. To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. True happiness will be found only in true love. Want to know how to keep a moron in suspense? I'll tell you tomorrow. We prefer to speak evil of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all. We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. We read to say that we have read. What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. What orators lack in depth they make up in length. What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel. When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it. When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanized. When you go out to buy, don't show your silver. Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of movement unless it was to avoid responsibility? With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. Without fools there would be no wisdom. Words are the voice of the heart. Words must be weighed, not counted. Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see. You are standing on my toes. You can't have your Kate and Edith, too. You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. You cannot propel youself forward by patting yourself on the back. You have an ability to sense and know higher truth. Youth had been a habit of hers so long that she could not part with it.