I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Hurricanes If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hurricanes
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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, "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hurricanes In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Hurricanes
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Hurricanes Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hurricanes
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern 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 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Hurricanes Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Hurricanes
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Hurricanes Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hurricanes
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "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) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Hurricanes "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Hurricanes
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Hurricanes A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Hurricanes
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Hurricanes To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Hurricanes
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Hurricanes 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 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 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Hurricanes
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Hurricanes Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Hurricanes
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Hurricanes Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Hurricanes
