After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Weather "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Weather
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Weather They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Weather
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Weather The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Weather Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Weather
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Weather "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Weather
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a rest period between romances. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Weather May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Weather
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Weather "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Weather
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Weather Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Weather
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Weather Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Weather
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Weather "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Weather
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Weather Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Weather
