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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. -- William Faulkner | |
| Actor Real Name Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt Cary Grant Archibald Leach Edward G. Robinson Emmanual Goldenburg Gene Wilder Gerald Silberman John Wayne Marion Morrison Kirk Douglas Issur Danielovitch Richard Burton Richard Jenkins Jr. Roy Rogers Leonard Slye Woody Allen Allen Stewart Konigsberg | |
| G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: "Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his secretary, `Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when she says `No,' he will say, `Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish.' And that's your chance, my boy." | |
| Alas, how love can trifle with itself! -- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" | |
| Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" | |
| An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" | |
| Every cloud engenders not a storm. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Every why hath a wherefore. -- William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors" | |
| Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. -- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece" | |
| For courage mounteth with occasion. -- William Shakespeare, "King John" | |
| Harp not on that string. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Having nothing, nothing can he lose. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" | |
| He hath eaten me out of house and home. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" | |
| How apt the poor are to be proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Twelfth-Night" | |
| I do desire we may be better strangers. -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" | |
| I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" | |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" | |
| Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" | |
| Let me take you a button-hole lower. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" | |
| Lord, what fools these mortals be! -- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" | |
| Must I hold a candle to my shames? -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" | |
| My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" | |
| Patch griefs with proverbs. -- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing" | |
| Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" | |
| Small things make base men proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| So so is good, very good, very excellent good: and yet it is not; it is but so so. -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" | |
| Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Tempt not a desperate man. -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" | |
| The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" | |
| The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" | |
| The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. -- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing" | |
| The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" | |
| The ripest fruit falls first. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" | |
| The smallest worm will turn being trodden on. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| There's small choice in rotten apples. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" | |
| They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" | |
| Things past redress and now with me past care. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" | |
| This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" | |
| This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" | |
| Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day. I wasted time and now doth time waste me. -- William Shakespeare | |
| You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" | |
| You tread upon my patience. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad. -- William Shakespeare, "Kind John" | |
| To say that UNIX is doomed is pretty rabid, OS/2 will certainly play a role, but you don't build a hundred million instructions per second multiprocessor micro and then try to run it on OS/2. I mean, get serious. -- William Zachmann, International Data Corp | |
| If a fool persists in his folly he shall become wise. -- William Blake | |
| Remember thee Ay, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there. Hamlet, I : v : 95 William Shakespeare | |
| Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from abroad, we are bringing home one unassailable fact -- [terrorism is] a crime by any civilized standard, committed against innocent people, away from the scene of political conflict, and must be dealt with as a crime. . . . [I]n our recognition of the nature of terrorism as a crime lies our best hope of dealing with it. . . . [L]et us use the tools that we have. Let us invoke the cooperation we have the right to expect around the world, and with that cooperation let us shrink the dark and dank areas of sanctuary until these cowardly marauders are held to answer as criminals in an open and public trial for the crimes they have committed, and receive the punishment they so richly deserve. - William H. Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 15 Oct 1985 | |
| To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. - William Cowper | |
| One may be able to quibble about the quality of a single experiment, or about the veracity of a given experimenter, but, taking all the supportive experiments together, the weight of evidence is so strong as readily to merit a wise man's reflection. - Professor William Tiller, parapsychologist, Standford University, commenting on psi research | |
| "Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards." - H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925. | |
| ...It is sad to find him belaboring the science community for its united opposition to ignorant creationists who want teachers and textbooks to give equal time to crank arguments that have advanced not a step beyond the flyblown rhetoric of Bishop Wilberforce and William Jennings Bryan. - Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 128-131 | |
| My mother is a fish. - William Faulkner | |
| I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. - Johnny Mnemonic, by William Gibson | |
| "Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries." -- William George Jordan | |
| "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James | |
| "The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." -- William Stekel | |
| To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire | |
| "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -- William E. Davidsen | |
| "Okay," Bobby said, getting the hang of it, "then what's the matrix? If she's a deck, and Danbala's a program, what's cyberspace?" "The world," Lucas said. -- William Gibson, _Count Zero_ | |
| "There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearence; he somehow seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him as carefully shaven as an actor, and clad in immaculate linen." -- H.L. Mencken, on the death of William Jennings Bryan | |
| "The Street finds its own uses for technology." -- William Gibson | |
| He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself. -- William S. Paley, chairman of CBS | |
| I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. -- William F. Buckley | |
| If they were so inclined, they could impeach him because they don't like his necktie. -- Attorney General William Saxbe | |
| Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. -- William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania | |
| Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783 | |
| Nobody takes a bribe. Of course at Christmas if you happen to hold out your hat and somebody happens to put a little something in it, well, that's different. -- New York City Police Commissioner (Ret.) William P. O'Brien, instructions to the force. | |
| With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd Garrison | |
| A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. -- William Blake | |
| William Safire's Rules for Writers: Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Verbs have to agree with their subjects. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. A writer must not shift your point of view. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.) Don't overuse exclamation marks!! Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing. Always pick on the correct idiom. The adverb always follows the verb. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives. | |
| Language is a virus from another planet. -- William Burroughs | |
| No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -- William Blake | |
| To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake | |
| A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James | |
| God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. -- William Bragg | |
| If all the world's economists were laid end to end, we wouldn't reach a conclusion. -- William Baumol | |
| If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled- up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and repeat the sequence. You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to hit that window jamb, that door, that chair. Get back on course and do it again. How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around your own apartment? -- William S. Burroughs | |
| Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. -- William Buckley | |
| The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project | |
| The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct. -- William of Occam | |
| The solution of problems is the most characteristic and peculiar sort of voluntary thinking. -- William James | |
| What is now proved was once only imagin'd. -- William Blake | |
| A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. -- William Blake | |
| And did those feet, in ancient times, Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God In England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon these crowded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark satanic mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Bring me my spears! O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire! I shall not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword rest in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land. -- William Blake, "Jerusalem" | |
| I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's; I will not Reason and Compare; my business is to Create. -- William Blake, "Jerusalem" | |
| Little Fly, Thy summer's play If thought is life My thoughtless hand And strength & breath, Has brush'd away. And the want Of thought is death, Am not I A fly like thee? Then am I Or art not thou A happy fly A man like me? If I live Or if I die. For I dance And drink & sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. -- William Blake, "The Fly" | |
| Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again;" So I piped: he wept to hear. -- William Blake, "Songs of Innocence" | |
| Remember thee Ay, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there. -- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" | |
| So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. -- William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheel Barrow" | |
| The Worst Lines of Verse For a start, we can rule out James Grainger's promising line: "Come, muse, let us sing of rats." Grainger (1721-67) did not have the courage of his convictions and deleted these words on discovering that his listeners dissolved into spontaneous laughter the instant they were read out. No such reluctance afflicted Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-70) who was inspired by the subject of war. "Flash! flash! bang! bang! and we blazed away, And the grey roof reddened and rang; Flash! flash! and I felt his bullet flay The tip of my ear. Flash! bang!" By contrast, Cheshire cheese provoked John Armstrong (1709-79): "... that which Cestria sends, tenacious paste of solid milk..." While John Bidlake was guided by a compassion for vegetables: "The sluggard carrot sleeps his day in bed, The crippled pea alone that cannot stand." George Crabbe (1754-1832) wrote: "And I was ask'd and authorized to go To seek the firm of Clutterbuck and Co." William Balmford explored the possibilities of religious verse: "So 'tis with Christians, Nature being weak While in this world, are liable to leak." And William Wordsworth showed that he could do it if he really tried when describing a pond: "I've measured it from side to side; Tis three feet long and two feet wide." -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures" | |
| Tyger, Tyger, burning bright Where the hammer? Where the chain? In the forests of the night, In what furnace was thy brain? What immortal hand or eye What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Dare its deadly terrors clasp? Burnt in distant deeps or skies When the stars threw down their spears The cruel fire of thine eyes? And water'd heaven with their tears On what wings dare he aspire? Dare he laugh his work to see? What the hand dare seize the fire? Dare he who made the lamb make thee? And what shoulder & what art Tyger, Tyger, burning bright Could twist the sinews of they heart? In the forests of the night, And when thy heart began to beat What immortal hand or eye What dread hand & what dread feet Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Could fetch it from the furnace deep And in thy horrid ribs dare steep In the well of sanguine woe? In what clay & in what mould Were thy eyes of fury roll'd? -- William Blake, "The Tyger" | |
| While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to hardware interrupts.] And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine. -- William Wordsworth, "She Was a Phantom of Delight" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to software interrupts.] | |
| "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "All your papers these days look the same; Those William's would be better unread -- Do these facts never fill you with shame?" "In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I wrote wonderful papers galore; But the great reputation I found that I'd won, Made it pointless to think any more." | |
| "You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again." "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door -- Pray what is the reason of that?" "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, "I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment -- one shilling the box -- Allow me to sell you a couple?" | |
| "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And make errors few people could bear; You complain about everyone's English but yours -- Do you really think this is quite fair?" "I make lots of mistakes," Father William declared, "But my stature these days is so great That no critic can hurt me -- I've got them all scared, And to stop me it's now far too late." | |
| "... freedom ... is a worship word..." "It is our worship word too." -- Cloud William and Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown | |
| Bozo is the Brotherhood of Zips and Others. Bozos are people who band together for fun and profit. They have no jobs. Anybody who goes on a tour is a Bozo. Why does a Bozo cross the street? Because there's a Bozo on the other side. It comes from the phrase vos otros, meaning others. They're the huge, fat, middle waist. The archetype is an Irish drunk clown with red hair and nose, and pale skin. Fields, William Bendix. Everybody tends to drift toward Bozoness. It has Oz in it. They mean well. They're straight-looking except they've got inflatable shoes. They like their comforts. The Bozos have learned to enjoy their free time, which is all the time. -- Firesign Theatre, "If Bees Lived Inside Your Head" | |
| "Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." -- William Gilbert | |
| Parting is such sweet sorrow. -William Shakespeare | |
| William Safire's rules for writing as seen in the New York Times Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Never, ever use repetitive redundancies. Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration. Last, but not least, avoid cliche's like the plague. | |
| Assume a virtue, if you have it not. -William Shakespeare | |
| Brief History Of Linux (#11) Birth of Gates and the Anti-Gates October 28, 1955 saw the birth of William H. Gates, who would rise above his humble beginnings as the son of Seattle's most powerful millionaire lawyer and become the World's Richest Man(tm). A classic American rags-to-riches story (with "rags" referring to the dollar bills that the Gates family used for toilet paper), Bill Gates is now regarded as the world's most respected businessman by millions of clueless people that have obviously never touched a Windows machine. Nature is all about balance. The birth of Gates in 1955 tipped the cosmic scales toward evil, but the birth of Linus Torvalds in 1969 finally balanced them out. Linus' destiny as the savior of Unix and the slayer of money-breathing Redmond dragons was sealed when, just mere hours after his birth, the Unix epoch began January 1st, 1970. While the baseline for Unix timekeeping might be arbitrary, we here at Humorix like to thank the its proximity of Linus' birth is no coincidence. | |
| A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on. -- William S. Burroughs | |
| "And, you know, I mustn't preach to you, but surely it wouldn't be right for you to take away people's pleasure of studying your attire, by just going and making yourself like everybody else. You feel that, don't you?" said he, earnestly. -- William Morris, "Notes from Nowhere" | |
| I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. -- William F. Buckley | |
| I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. -- William Gibson, "Johnny Mnemonic" | |
| If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. -- William Orton | |
| Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. -- William Hazlitt | |
| Success is in the minds of Fools. -- William Wrenshaw, 1578 | |
| The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. -- William Butler Yeats | |
| There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. -- Admiral William Halsey | |
| You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. -- William Blake | |
| I am examining you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian on earth believes. -- Clarence Darrow, to William Jennings Bryan | |
| Sorry about off-topic. I thought I was posting to Usenet. - William Park on linux-kernel | |
| Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. -- William Phelps | |
| It's not? Are you saying that you SHOULD allow people (other than William Wallace) to shoot lightning bolts from their arse? -- Seth Galbraith | |
| Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards." -- H.L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925. | |
| Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential death in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters. -- Henry James Sr., writing to his sons Henry and William | |
| Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. -- William Faulkner | |
| I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -- William Allen White | |
| It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. -- William James | |
| ......... Escape the 'Gates' of Hell `:::' ....... ...... ::: * `::. ::' ::: .:: .:.::. .:: .:: `::. :' ::: :: :: :: :: :: :::. ::: .::. .:: ::. `::::. .:' ::. ...:::.....................::' .::::.. -- William E. Roadcap | |
| Just to remind everyone. Today, Sept 17, is Linux's 5th birthday. So happy birthday to all on the list. Thanks go out to Linus and all the other hard-working maintainers for 5 wonderful fast paced years! -- William E. Roadcap <roadcapw@cfw.com> | |
