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Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
US novelist (1900 - 1949)
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
US columnist & journalist (1925 - )
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
Dave Letterman
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
David Fiedler, in _Byte_
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
US radical activist (1936 - 1989)
Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
The Talmud
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 - )
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794)
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Gene Spafford, 1992
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
Union gives strength.
Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC)
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt
US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
Margaret Mitchell
US novelist (1900 - 1949)
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker
US columnist & journalist (1925 - )
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
Dave Letterman
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
David Fiedler, in _Byte_
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
US radical activist (1936 - 1989)
Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
The Talmud
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
US (Romanian-born) activist, novelist (1928 - )
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794)
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Gene Spafford, 1992
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
Union gives strength.
Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC)
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt
US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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