For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Weather I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Weather
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Weather When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Weather Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Weather
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Weather I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Weather
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Weather Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Weather
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Weather If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Weather
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Weather "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Weather
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Weather "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Weather
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Weather Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Weather
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Weather Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 Weather
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Weather Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Weather
