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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 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Weather
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Weather There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Weather
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 government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Weather May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Weather
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Weather
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Weather
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud What's new? Most of my wife. Weather Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Weather
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Weather Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Weather
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Weather 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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Weather He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (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 Weather
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Weather Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Weather
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Weather If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Weather
