Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more

deadly in the long run.

-- Mark Twain

Expect a letter from a friend who will ask a favor of you.

You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.

Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.

Anarchy's roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism.

-- Emile Henry

A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation.

-- Peter Kropotkin

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.

-- Oscar Wilde

"I understand this is your first dead client," Sabian was saying. The

absurdity of the statement made me want to laugh but they don't call me

Deadpan Allie and lie.

-- Pat Cadigan, "Mindplayers"

What happened last night can happen again.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State

Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George

Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his

time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last

Days of Pompeii."

Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,

beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord

Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"

written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except

at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of

wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene

lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty

flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the

difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

-- Mark Twain

I think it can be clearly proven that the mental constitution of woman, like that of man, has never failed to rise where restrictions upon equal freedom have been torn down.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

-- Virginia Woolf

Too much is just enough.

-- Mark Twain, on whiskey

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

A: To see his friend Gregory peck.

Q: Why did the chicken cross the playground?

A: To get to the other slide.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

-- Oscar Wilde

Q: How many IBM 370's does it take to execute a job?

A: Four, three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.

All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.

-- Oscar Wilde

You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.