Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Weather The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Weather
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Weather I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Weather "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Weather
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Weather Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Weather
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Weather A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Weather
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Weather With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Weather
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 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Weather
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Weather Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Weather
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Weather Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Weather
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Weather If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain 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 Weather
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Weather There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Weather
