I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson 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 i In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Weather "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Weather
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Weather
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Weather Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Weather
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Weather
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Weather True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Weather
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Weather Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Weather
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Weather To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Weather
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Weather "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Weather
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Weather I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Weather
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Weather "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Weather It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Weather
