"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Weather We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Weather
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Weather The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Weather
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Weather The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Weather
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Weather Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Weather
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Weather I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Weather
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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, If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Weather A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Weather
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Weather The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Weather
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Weather "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Weather
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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Weather "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Weather
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Weather "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Weather
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Weather We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Weather
