And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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) Weather Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Weather
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Weather ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Weather
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Weather I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Weather
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Weather I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Weather
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Weather Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Weather
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Weather Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Weather
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Weather "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Weather
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Weather I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Weather
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Weather One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Weather
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Weather When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Weather
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Weather "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Weather
