Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Weather "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Weather
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Weather "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Weather
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Weather "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Weather
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Weather An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Weather
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Weather Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Weather
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Weather Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Weather "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Weather
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Weather The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Weather
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 Weather Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Weather
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Weather "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Weather
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Weather When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Weather
