Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Weather "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Weather
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Weather "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Weather
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Weather I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Weather
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Weather "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Weather
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Weather I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Weather
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Weather Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Weather
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Weather The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Weather
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Weather Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Weather Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Weather
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Weather One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weather
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Weather "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Weather
