"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. 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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Weather The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Weather
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Weather Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Weather To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Weather
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Weather Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Weather
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Weather Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be 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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Weather Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Weather
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Weather "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Weather
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Weather "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "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) Weather
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Weather "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Weather
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Weather Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Weather
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Weather If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Weather
