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| 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 | |
| It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live" | |
| Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke | |
| A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Every cloud engenders not a storm. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Gone With The Wind LITE(tm) -- by Margaret Mitchell A woman only likes men she can't have and the South gets trashed. Gift of the Magi LITE(tm) -- by O. Henry A husband and wife forget to register their gift preferences. The Old Man and the Sea LITE(tm) -- by Ernest Hemingway An old man goes fishing, but doesn't have much luck. | |
| Harp not on that string. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Having nothing, nothing can he lose. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| He hath eaten me out of house and home. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| Small things make base men proud. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI", Part IV | |
| The smallest worm will turn being trodden on. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" | |
| You tread upon my patience. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV" | |
| Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer | |
| MSDOS is not dead, it just smells that way. -- Henry Spencer | |
| Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer | |
| To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden" | |
| One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Brook Adams | |
| Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack | |
| "It's no sweat, Henry. Russ made it back to Bugtown before he died. So he'll regenerate in a couple of days. It's just awful sloppy of him to get killed in the first place. Humph!" -- Ron Post, Post Brothers Comics | |
| "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen | |
| "None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible." -- From Henry Ford Sr., "My Life and Work," p. 86 (1922): | |
| A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -- O'Henry | |
| An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639 | |
| "... gentlemen do not read each other's mail." -- Secretary of State Henry Stimson, on closing down the Black Chamber, the precursor to the National Security Agency. | |
| If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation. | |
| It is now 10 p.m. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is? -- Elizabeth Carpenter | |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organisation of hatreds. -- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams" | |
| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. -- Henry Adams | |
| That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" | |
| The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. -- Henry Kissinger | |
| Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions. -- Henry N. Camp | |
| Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| Monterey... is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California ... [it] is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusements and knavery. -- Richard Henry Dama, "Two Years Before the Mast", 1840 | |
| Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed. -- Rev. Henry Durant, founder of the University of California | |
| Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Adams | |
| "Multiply in your head" (ordered the compassionate Dr. Adams) "365,365,365, 365,365,365 by 365,365,365,365,365,365". He [ten-year-old Truman Henry Safford] flew around the room like a top, pulled his pantaloons over the tops of his boots, bit his hands, rolled his eyes in their sockets, sometimes smiling and talking, and then seeming to be in an agony, until, in not more than one minute, said he, 133,491,850,208,566,925,016,658,299,941,583,225!" An electronic computer might do the job a little faster but it wouldn't be as much fun to watch. -- James R. Newman, "The World of Mathematics" | |
| Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay | |
| Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men." The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. -- James Henry Leigh Hunt, "Abou Ben Adhem" | |
| An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit. -- Henry Ford | |
| Any man can work when every stroke of his hand brings down the fruit rattling from the tree to the ground; but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement, by the power of truth -- that requires a heroism which is transcendent. -- Henry Ward Beecher | |
| I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that nature with which I am acquainted. Mythology comes nearest to it of any. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Henry Allen | |
| One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Brook Adams | |
| You can't play your friends like marks, kid. -- Henry Gondorf, "The Sting" | |
| In "King Henry VI, Part II," Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to his fellow anti-establishment rabble-rousers, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." That action may be extreme but a similar sentiment was expressed by Thomas K. Connellan, president of The Management Group, Inc. Speaking to business executives in Chicago and quoted in Automotive News, Connellan attributed a measure of America's falling productivity to an excess of attorneys and accountants, and a dearth of production experts. Lawyers and accountants "do not make the economic pie any bigger; they only figure out how the pie gets divided. Neither profession provides any added value to product." According to Connellan, the highly productive Japanese society has 10 lawyers and 30 accountants per 100,000 population. The U.S. has 200 lawyers and 700 accountants. This suggests that "the U.S. proportion of pie-bakers and pie-dividers is way out of whack." Could Dick Butcher have been an efficiency expert? -- Motor Trend, May 1983 | |
| Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| 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 | |
| All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. -- Henry Tyroon | |
| Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in the South, were of the present standard gauge. The southern roads were still five feet between rails. It was decided to change the gauge of all southern roads to standard, in one day. This remarkable piece of work was carried out on a Sunday in May of 1886. For weeks beforehand, shops had been busy pressing wheels in on the axles to the new and narrower gauge, to have a supply of rolling stock which could run on the new track as soon as it was ready. Finally, on the day set, great numbers of gangs of track layers went to work at dawn. Everywhere one rail was loosened, moved in three and one-half inches, and spiked down in its new position. By dark, trains from anywhere in the United States could operate over the tracks in the South, and a free interchange of freight cars everywhere was possible. -- Robert Henry, "Trains", 1957 | |
| I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. -- Emile Henry Gauvreay | |
| Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau | |
| None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert -- because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. -- From Henry Ford Sr., "My Life and Work" | |
| When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -- Henry J. Kaiser | |
| Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere, you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-) --lwall | |
