In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Weather Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Weather
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Weather "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Weather
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Weather
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Weather Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Weather
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Weather We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Weather
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 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Weather Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Weather
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland What's new? Most of my wife. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. 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, Weather "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Weather
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Weather "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Weather
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Weather You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Weather
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Weather "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Weather
