There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Allergy and Smog Alerts If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Allergy and Smog Alerts
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Allergy and Smog Alerts What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Allergy and Smog Alerts
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Allergy and Smog Alerts If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Allergy and Smog Alerts
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Allergy and Smog Alerts "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Allergy and Smog Alerts
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Allergy and Smog Alerts "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Allergy and Smog Alerts
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Allergy and Smog Alerts Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Allergy and Smog Alerts
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Man and wife make one fool. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Allergy and Smog Alerts When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Allergy and Smog Alerts
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Allergy and Smog Alerts The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Allergy and Smog Alerts
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) What's new? Most of my wife. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Allergy and Smog Alerts Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Allergy and Smog Alerts
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "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 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Allergy and Smog Alerts If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Allergy and Smog Alerts
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Allergy and Smog Alerts Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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