Linux People

Blessed are the forgetful:  for they get the better even of their blunders.
                -- Nietzsche

Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded
to say it.
                -- James Russell Lowell

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
                -- W.C. Bennett

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
                -- Alexander Pope

Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it,
for he shall enjoy living.
                -- W.C. Bennett

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving
wordy evidence of the fact.
                -- George Eliot

Bounders get bound when they are caught bounding.
                -- Ralph Lewin

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers.  There is, indeed, no wild beast
more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience; if
brusque, your character.
                -- Jonathan Swift

Buck-passing usually turns out to be a boomerang.

But I find the old notions somehow appealing.  Not that I want to go back
to them -- it is outrageous to have some outer authority tell you what is
proper use and abuse of your own faculties, and it is ludicrous to hold
reason higher than body or feeling.  Still there is something true and
profoundly sane about the belief that acts like murder or theft or
assault violate the doer as well as the done to.  We might even, if we
thought this way, have less crime.  The popular view of crime, as far as
I can deduce it from the movies and television, is that it is a breaking
of a rule by someone who thinks they can get away with that; implicitly,
everyone would like to break the rule, but not everyone is arrogant
enough to imagine they can get away with it.  It therefore becomes very
important for the rule upholders to bring such arrogance down.
                -- Marilyn French, "The Woman's Room"