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From: "Gary Hopkins" <wk00624@psilink.com>
Subject: Experience
Organization: Gary Hopkins Typesetting
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:28:12 GMT
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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."--Helen Hayes

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons 
afterwards. --unknown

"Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes" --Oscar Wilde

"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
							--Willie Sutton
(Willie Sutton was a bank robber about fifty years ago, quite famous in 
his time. Another favorite quote/story is that he was once asked why he 
robbed banks, to which he replied: "Because that's where the money is."

"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience 
most of them, on the whole, are trash." --Sigmund Freud

"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that shen you get the 
experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it." --Jimmy Connors

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." --Heinrich Heine
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Lord of the Control-H")
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Jefferson Memorial
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:15:24 GMT
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom


    What's written on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington,
D.C.?  There's that great paragraph about his opposition to institutions
that hold tyranny over the minds of men; he meant in particular the
Church, but they left out the context in the Memorial.  In any case I
don't know the source and can't find it out.

Does anyone know?


--

   Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Ogden Nash quotes (Was: Re: Three quotes)
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:25:08 GMT


In article <C0BH6z.MB1@world.std.com>, mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur) writes:
>  
> "Nietsche is Pietsche." 
>           --Ogden Nash


The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher,
    Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
    Do I want one?  God forbiddie!


Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.


Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny --
Did you ever try buying them without money?


The trouble with a kitten is that
When it grows up, it's always a cat.


The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.


"If called by a panther...don't anther."
			-- "Parents Keep Out!"


I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.


The hunter crouches in his blind
'Neath camouflage of every kind
And conjures up a quacking noise
To lend allure to his decoys.
This grown-up man, with pluck and luck,
Is hoping to outwit a duck.


The one-L lama,
He's a priest.
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet a silk pajama,
There isn't any three-L lllama!


O Duty,
Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a 
    cutie?
Why displayest thou the countenance of the kind
    of conscientious organizing spinster
That the minute you see her you are aginster?
Why glitter thy spectacles so ominously?
Why art thou clad so abominously?
Why art thou so different from Venus?
And why do thou and I have so few interests
    mutually in common between us?


-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
From: rhackenb@john.atl.ge.com (Bob Hackenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:21:31 GMT
	<1992Dec31.020828.15210@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
	<lacesso.725817647@so-baptiste> <1992Dec31.174412.20470@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: /home/rhackenb/.organization
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In-reply-to: mknapp@casbah.acns.nwu.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:44:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.174412.20470@news.acns.nwu.edu> mknapp@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Knapp) writes:


		Now that there have been a great number of quotes by Dorothy Parker
   posted, could somebody please tell me who she is?

In the New American Desk Encyclopedia:

PARKER, Dorothy (1893-1967), American writer, critic and wit.  She
wrote short stories, satirical verse and newspaper columns, and was a
celebrated conversationalist.  Her tone is poignant, ironical and
often cruelly witty and cynical.

--
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  "WORK TO EAT,                              __o
       EAT TO LIVE,                         -\<,
         LIVE TO BIKE,                      O/ O
             BIKE TO WORK"
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From: Dale@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Dale Gee)
Subject: Re: Killers
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:09:24 GMT

In article <C0pIvE.Jtp@uceng.uc.edu> sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide) writes:
>
>Here's a quote from convicted child killer John Gotti,
>
>"Clowns can get away with murder."
>
>Anyone else have any quotes from criminals?
>
>Steve
That's John Wayne Gacci <sp>.
BTW, I posted that quote last week:)

Dale




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From: dchiasson@mta.ca
Subject: Cheers
Reply-To: dchiasson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:13:19 GMT

A good quote from a great show:


	"Women, can't live with them ... pass the beer nuts."

				-George Wendt

					


-Poncho
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Subject: Re: Cheers
From: choover@charlie.usd.edu (Christopher J. Hoover)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:53:48 GMT
Reply-To: choover@charlie.usd.edu
 <1993Jan4.214440.1246@dg-rtp.dg.com> <C0EzsB.HJx@ecf.toronto.edu>,<C0Ftx6.9sp@rice.edu>
Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept.

In article <C0Ftx6.9sp@rice.edu>, garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett) writes:
>In article <C0EzsB.HJx@ecf.toronto.edu> torenvl@ecf.toronto.edu (TORENVLIET GERARD LAWRENS) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan4.214440.1246@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
>>>In article <1993Jan4.151319.18068@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, dchiasson@mta.ca writes:

[Four good Cheers quotes deleted to keep this from becoming a monster
cascade....]

How about:

"Hey, Norm!  How's life in the fast lane?"

"Beats the hell out of me.  I can't even find the on ramp."


Chris

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Network Coordinator for Student Life             Disclaimer:  Standard.
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From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu (James Wiegand)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Who said this?
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:19:40 GMT
Organization: Temple University EE Dept.

In article <C0HuMJ.sB@sunfish.usd.edu> choover@charlie.usd.edu writes:
>"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Chris
>
>---

Laurie Anderson, from her thing for PBS called "What Do You Mean _We_?".
It's also in her Warner Bros. Collected Videos tape. She attributes
it to Steve Martin.

I was born a small black child...
	Steve Martin

The gift of life,
It's a twist of fate,
It's a roll of the dice,
A free ride...
	Laurie Anderson, "Monkey's Paw", Strange Angels.

What is the great globe
itself but a Loose-Fish?
And what are you, reader,
but a Loose-Fish
and a Fast-Fish, too?
	Melville, "Moby Dick" - read it if you haven't already. It's gross!

jim
... still looking for the "Return" key ...
From: bwilliam@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Huw William Teare Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Cheers quotes
Date: 7 Jan 1993 12:36:22 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

Another of those famed quotes when Norm enters the bar, this time on an
obviously freezing day.

Woody : What's up Mr Peterson?

Norm  : My nipples, it's freezing out there.

(Sorry I couldn't match their delivery)

			Cheers,
				Bill.
From: akumar@pollux.usc.edu (Anant Kumar)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: A Few Good Men
Date: 7 Jan 1993 10:35:09 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide) writes:

>In article <1993Jan6.151010.25047@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dchiasson@mta.ca writes:


>"I eat breakfast 300 yards away from four men who are trained to kill me."
				      ^^^^	
                               Jack Nicholson

wasn't that four thousand men?
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Reagan quotes
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:22:40 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

"We should declare war on North Vietnam.  We could pave the whole
country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas."
                -- Ronald Reagan
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Need some source
Date: 6 Jan 93 04:34:01 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com's message of 5 Jan 93 16:05:30 GMT

In article <rdippold.726249930@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:

>Fat, and scant of breath.
>Give us the foils, come on!
>(Both of these have got to be from Hamlet, but where? (Act, scene, line))

Both Act 5, dunno the scene but it's one of the last ones- it's the fencing
match between Hamlet and Laertes.  "Fat" means "sweating" in Elizabethan
English.

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey
From: christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Who said this?
Date: 8 Jan 93 05:50:19 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Christopher J. Hoover (choover@charlie.usd.edu) wrote:
: "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

: Thanks in advance,

: Chris

I'm positive I saw Frank Zappa quoted as saying this, although
I'm not so positive he originated it.  The article I saw him quoting
it didn't mention the actual originator if it wasn't FZ.

----
Carl Christensen
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Subject: Re: Who said this?
From: choover@charlie.usd.edu (Christopher J. Hoover)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:40:31 GMT
Reply-To: choover@charlie.usd.edu
Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept.

In article <1993Jan7.232742.22694@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
>In article <C0HuMJ.sB@sunfish.usd.edu> choover@charlie.usd.edu writes:
>>"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
>>
>	I believe it's William S. Burroughs, but I don't have the source.
>
>Chuck
>
>--
>   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
>     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
>        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
>           internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80

Actually, somebody clued me in via e-mail on this one.  It's Laurie Anderson.

Mystery solved.  I'd almost forgotten that quote til I saw it in someone's sig
a few weeks ago....


Chris

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From: eachus@goldfinger.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Button quotation
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:07:45 GMT


In article <1i308aINN9v8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:

   Once when in the airport in Boston I found an abandoned button with the
   message
       "Function Points - The Mother of All Metrics"

   Now aside from the obvious relation to Saddam Hussein does anybody have
   the foggiest idea what the slogan means?

   Function points are/were one of the first ways of estimating the
size of a (software) program to be written.  You take the
specifications, count the number of functions specified, multiply by
magic numbers, and get an estimate which is probably much worse than a
SWAG by an experienced programmer.  (My favorite size estimation
technique... Get six experts to make independant estimates, take the
worst, then double it. :-


					Robert I. Eachus

with Standard_Disclaimer;
use  Standard_Disclaimer;
function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...)
--

					Robert I. Eachus

with Standard_Disclaimer;
use  Standard_Disclaimer;
function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...
From: mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: a mind forever voyaging
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:54:00 GMT
Reply-To: mbr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Universtiy of Chicago

>	A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
>					    -- William Wordsworth

Wordsworth was speaking, by the way, of none other than Newton.
I don't believe there's supposed to be a comma in it, either - changes
the meaning.


-Matt Ryan, earl of instead,
mb-ryan@uchicago.edu                Curious Of All Natures
==================================  ====================================
If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. You'll never see the end of the road
If I'm awake, never let me sleep.   When you're traveling with me.
               -old chinese fellow                        -Crowded House     
==================================  ====================================
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From: dchiasson@mta.ca
Subject: A Few Good Men
Reply-To: dchiasson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:10:10 GMT


Here's a couple of doozies from a new movie:


"Oh good, I was afraid that I wasn't going to be able to use  the liar

liar pants on fire defense."
		-Tom Cruise

"Well aren't I the f**king a**hole."
		-Jack Nicholson

-Pinto
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From: rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert)
Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
Keywords: succeed
Organization: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Department
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:12:45 GMT

In article <1i56qjINNfce@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie) writes:
>If at first you don't succeed, change the meaning of "success".

  Or, "If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving."  (Anyone
know where that's from?)

  Or, as a Southern friend of mine says, "If at first you don't secede,
try, try again."


>-Shelley Louie
>My other account is on a Cray....


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From: rick@sq.sq.com (Rick Innis)
Subject: Re: Tolkien revised
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 15:03:02 GMT

I'm told by a friend that these two were written on opposite walls of a
toilet cubicle in our local student union:

On one side:

	"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, it makes them soggy and
	 difficult to light"

and on the other side:

	"Don't throw cigarettes into the toilet, for they are subtle
	 and quick to anger."
-- 
Rick Innis
SoftQuad Inc.           "Have you seen the secret of the Universe?"  said 
rick@sq.com             Zebedee, arriving.  "I know I left it here somewhere."
+1 (416) 239 4801
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From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Possible EC anthem? (was: Re: Wanted: Cool Einstein-quotes...)
Keywords: Einstein, Quotes
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 20:48:40 GMT

In article <smac.726273744@iconix.oz.au> smac@iconix.oz.au (Stuart McCormack) writes:
>One of my favourites goes something like this....
>
>	If I am wrong then the French will say that I am a German
>	and the Germans will say that I am a Jew. Ah, but if I am
>	right then the Germans will say that I am a German and the
>	French will say that I am a Jew.

Reminds me of a quote I always liked:

In heaven, the French are the cooks, the English are the policemen and the
Germans are the engineers.

In hell, the French are the engineers, the English are the cooks, and the
Germans are the policemen...

.                           <<<<Infinite K>>>>

"I'm surrounded by idiots of my own design!" - Joel, MST3k

"Watch it, Kenzie..."
"What'll you do, ruin my career?"
"What career?"     - Nathan Spring, _Starcops_

--
|Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver|
|Internet bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-6208.| 
|"Don't tug on that - you never know what ][The Raster Image IS responsible |
|it might be attached to." Buckaroo Banzai][for everything I say! | *Amiga* |
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From: a-markov@microsoft.com (Mark Overby)
Subject: Repubs and Dems
Date: 05 Jan 93 18:22:40 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: usa


"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is
plain idiocy."

-- Winston Churchill
From: mastr@husc8.harvard.edu (claudia mastroianni)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Oh, lighten up!
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:14:08 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1i560fINNf9h@agate.berkeley.edu> slouie@ocf.berkeley.edu (Shelley Louie) writes:
>> anna@psych.toronto.edu (Anna Filippone) writes:
>>Yeah, I agree.  Heard this one the other day by comedian Lean Delarea:
                                                           ^^^^
>>
>>   "I'm not really a lesbian -- it's a career move."
>
>"Help! I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body."
>		-Unknown
>
>-Shelley Louie
>My other account is on a Cray...

I'm pretty sure her name is Lea -- BTW, her imitation of
Gertrude Stein as Ralph Kramden in a spoof of "The Honeymooners"
has to be seen to be believed!

Claudia
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From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Subject: Re: a pesky quote
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:55:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.224130.3512@mprgate.mpr.ca> duncan@mpr.ca (Nick Duncan) writes:
>
>Who said: "An unexamined life is not worth living." ???
>

Several people identified this as Plato. Don't forget the corollary,
from psychiatrist Sheldon Kopp:

"The unlived life is not worth examining."

*) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *) *)!(* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (* (*
Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu  -or-  415/926-2846
Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.     -Bill Clinton
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From: bohrer@acme.mcc.com (Bill Bohrer)
Subject: Re: Simpson's Quotes
Organization: Entropical Delights
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:59:33 GMT

In article <C0CtD7.JqI@uceng.uc.edu> sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide) writes:
>
>Just a few from a great source.
>
>"Beer!  Now there's a temporary solution."
>				Homer
>
>"When will I learn?  The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a
>	bottle.  They're on TV."
>			Homer
>
>
>Steve

Now I recall they just found evidence of beer 5000 years old in
Sumeria, so it seems reasonable the ancient greeks might've been
clever enough to do the same, but I KNOW TV was invented in Germany
sometime in the 1930s??

==Bill
8>)

-- 
			   8>D
Now that the Democrats are back in power can we all just LIGHTEN UP???
		 	   8>p
From: aproden@ac.dal.ca (Andrew P. Rodenhiser)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Eintein: God does not play dice
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:26:46 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

On this Einstein thing, can anyone correctly quote me the "God does not
play dice" line.  Especially in German!  Frederik Pohl adopts it in one
of the Heechee novels as "Raffiniert ist der Herr Heechee, aber boshaft
ist er nicht" or something like that.  I'd like the correct original.

E-mail please, but post too if you like.

Thanks
-- 
KISS/Cooper/Metal/Seattle/MontyPython/DouglasAdams/NASCAR/Oldsmobiles
Andrew P. Rodenhiser, Graduate Student, Colloidal Physical Chemistry
Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada      APRODEN@AC.DAL.CA
Fluorescence Probing Studies of Polymer/Surfactant Interactions
"Now I know why everything turns grey, but it's our own world we paint
And I want the brightest, I want fluorescent, every day and night,
For the rest of my life, Open your eyes, Won't you?"--Faith No More
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From: janne@seita.oulu.fi (Janne Himanka)
Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
Organization: Tilde's home bakery
	<Jan.4.16.39.15.1993.24491@cadenza.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:49:42 GMT

"I don't want harmony. I want harmony."
--Dutch Schultz

"It is raining, Anita Huffington[?]."
--Ulysses Grant

"Quien es? [Who is it?]"
--Billy the Kid

Janne
--
Most of the girls, as they walked along, seemed to be % shem@phoenix.oulu.fi
absorbed in silent prayer; but he supposed, on second % TKOP-HJH@FINOU.BITNET
thoughts, it was only gum they were thus incessantly  % shem@nic.funet.fi
ruminating. Gum, not God. (A. Huxley)                 % Dept. of Libr.&Inf. Sc
From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Simpson's Quotes
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:29:12 GMT
Reply-To: djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <SINGHAI.93Jan5153943@clarinet.cis.ohio-state.edu> singhai@clarinet.cis.ohio-state.edu (ashish singhai) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.185933.17748@mcc.com> bohrer@acme.mcc.com (Bill Bohrer) writes:

>> ... but I KNOW TV was invented in Germany
>> sometime in the 1930s??
>
>	I thought it was invented in England by J. L. Baerd (could someone
>correct me with the spelling of the lastname please).

Hmm, I thought it was an American by the name of Philo T. Farnsworth


-- 
Dennis Brennan
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
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From: rprimmer@home.webo.dg.com (Bob Primmer)
Subject: Re: Seeking source of Voltaire (?) quote
Date: 06 Jan 93 16:08:13 GMT
To: james@cs.anu.edu.au (James Popple)
Organization: NSDD/ONSD, Data General Corp., Westboro, MA

[] Regarding Seeking source of Voltaire (?) quote;
[] james@cs.anu.edu.au (James Popple) writes:
jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: barnard.anu.edu.au

jp> I am looking for the source of a quotation, I think it is from Voltaire:

jp>         A clever quotation proves nothing. 

jp> (or words to that effect). 

jp> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
jp> Thanks in advance.

jp> James Popple

James, I believe the quote goes, "A witty saying proves nothing."  I'm
unable to come up with the correct cite; sorry ...


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From: scriven@ecf.toronto.edu (SCRIVEN ADAM)
Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
Keywords: succeed
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:20:32 GMT

How about...

If at first you don't succeed, read the instructions.


Adam  (scriven@ecf.utoronto.ca)
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