Linux People: 31 of 1231 |
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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Linux People: 32 of 1231 |
A real person has two reasons for doing anything ... a good reason and
the real reason.
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Linux People: 33 of 1231 |
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single
man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Linux People: 34 of 1231 |
A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule.
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Linux People: 35 of 1231 |
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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Linux People: 36 of 1231 |
"...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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Linux People: 37 of 1231 |
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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Linux People: 38 of 1231 |
A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.
-- B. Franklin
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Linux People: 39 of 1231 |
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
getting nervous.
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Linux People: 40 of 1231 |
A well-known friend is a treasure.
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