A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands.
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A bore is a man who talks so much about himself that you can't talk about
yourself.
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A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have
enlightened him with ours.
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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
		-- Herbert Prochnow
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
		-- Victor Hugo
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A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
		-- Edgar A. Shoaff
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A friend is a present you give yourself.
		-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to
you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to
you about yourself.
		-- Lisa Kirk
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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.  The
green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that
grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals
indicating two directions at once.  Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled
with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.  In the shadow under the green visor
of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly's supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down
upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D. H. Holmes department
store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress.  Several
of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be
properly considered offenses against taste and decency.  Possession of
anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and
geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
		-- John Kennedy Toole, "Confederacy of Dunces"
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own
weight in other people's patience.
		-- John Updike
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A man of genius makes no mistakes.
His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
		-- James Joyce, "Ulysses"
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	A man pleaded innocent of any wrong doing when caught by the police
during a raid at the home of a mobster, excusing himself by claiming that he
was making a bolt for the door.
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A man who keeps stealing mopeds is an obvious cycle-path.
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A man who turns green has eschewed protein.
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A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.
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A person forgives only when they are in the wrong.
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A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
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A person who has nothing looks at all there is and wants something.
A person who has something looks at all there is and wants all the rest.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
		-- Elbert Hubbard
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A real friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away.
A real friend is someone you can use over and over again.
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A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and
the real reason.
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A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep
him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are
worth committing.
		-- Samuel Butler
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	"...A strange enigma is man!"
	"Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal," I suggested.
	"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes.  "He remarked
that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he
becomes a mathematical certainty.  You can, for example, never foretell what
any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number
will be up to.  Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant.  So says
the statistician."
		-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention,
and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
		-- B. Franklin
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
getting nervous.
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A well-known friend is a treasure.
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Accept people for what they are -- completely unacceptable.
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According to the obituary notices, a mean and unimportant person never dies.
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Adam was but human--this explains it all.  He did not want the apple for the
apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.  The mistake was in
not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
		-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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Advice is a dangerous gift; be cautious about giving and receiving it.
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After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.
		-- Jean Giraudoux
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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.
		-- P. J. O'Rourke
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After living in New York, you trust nobody, but you believe everything.
Just in case.
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	After Snow White used a couple rolls of film taking pictures of the
seven dwarfs, she mailed the roll to be developed.  Later she was heard to
sing, "Some day my prints will come."
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Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
		-- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6
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Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball.
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want
a chance to change the world?
                -- Steve Jobs
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It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
                -- Steve Jobs
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at
night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
                -- Steve Jobs
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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
                -- Steve Jobs
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I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the
last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And
whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to
change something.
                -- Steve Jobs
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
                -- Steve Jobs
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one
year.... It's very character-building
               -- Steve Jobs
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When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but
only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered
glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat
crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard
powerless to stop it.  It's only afterwards that it becomes anything
like a story at all.  When you are telling it, to yourself or to
someone else.
		-- Margaret Atwood, "Alias Grace"
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I am examining you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian
on earth believes.
		-- Clarence Darrow, to William Jennings Bryan
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"Go on, girl!  You'll never get a better chance to buy Jif at this
price.  *Carpe diem*, babe!"
		-- "The Naked Consumer", Erik Larson
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I'm enthralled by combine harvesters. In fact, I yearn to have one --
as a pet.
		-- "The Day of the Jackal"
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call
this their point of view.
		-- Albert Einstein
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist is afraid this might be true.
		-- crazyphilman's sig on kuro5hin
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I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot
save myself.
		-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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If a man slept by day, he had little time to work.  That was a
satisfying notion to Escargot.
		-- "The Stone Giant", James P. Blaylock
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He liked fishing a little too much, and he believed that work was
something a man did when he had to.  He had always been able to get
along well enough without it, especially for the last couple of
years.
		-- "The Stone Giant", James P. Blaylock
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Would a giant, profit-oriented cartel lie to you?
		-- Top Ten List, Late Night with David Letterman
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Some days you wake and immediately start worrying.  Nothing in
particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning
quietly and there will be trouble.
		-- "Survival Series", Jenny Holzer
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Your conscience never stops you from doing anything.  It just stops you
from enjoying it.
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your
acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
		-- Richard Bach, "Illusions"
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Youth -- not a time of life but a state of mind... a predominance of
courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
		-- Robert F. Kennedy
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Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
		-- Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"
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