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- Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I don't believe in leaving anything to be inherited.
- Robert Maxwell, Playboy Interview - October 1991
- By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Things are so bad in Massachusetts now they don't even bother to plough Route 128 when it snows.
- Scott McNealy, in the wake of Wang's going Chapter 11
- And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors.
- Jeff Zurschmeide
- Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
- W.C. Fields
- Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.
- Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
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