"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Weather Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Weather
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Weather It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Weather
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Weather "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Weather
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Weather You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Weather
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Weather "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Weather
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Weather The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Weather
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-- Brendan Hills We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Weather Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Weather
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Weather "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Weather
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Weather The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Weather
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Weather I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Weather
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Weather
