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 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Weather What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Weather
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Weather When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Weather
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "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." Weather
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Weather If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Weather
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Weather In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Weather
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Weather History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Weather
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "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) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Weather "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Weather
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Weather "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Weather
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Weather Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Weather The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Weather
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Weather Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Weather
