love and life quotes

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. ~Peter Williams



Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows. ~Author Unknown



The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~Author Unknown



The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabian Proverb



Air quotes: the action of using one's fingers to make quotation marks in the air during speech; often used to express some degree of satire, sarcasm, irony, or euphemism.



I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye



For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. ~Richard P. Feynman



Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ~William Lloyd Garrison



Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats



Treat the patient, not the Xray. ~James M. Hunter



All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ~William Mathews



Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca



Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly



I don't like watching golf on TV. I can't stand whispering. ~David Brenner



Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~P.J. O'Rourke



We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome



History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ~Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man



The other line moves faster. ~Etorre's Observation



There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. ~Martin A. Sullivan



Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. ~Marsha Norman