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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Weather "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Weather
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Weather Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Weather
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Weather I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "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." He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Weather
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Weather Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Weather
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Weather "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Weather
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Weather "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Weather
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Weather Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Weather There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Weather
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather "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) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Weather "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) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weather
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Weather Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Weather
