"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Weather "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Weather
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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, Weather
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Weather "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Weather "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Weather
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Weather Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Weather
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Weather My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Weather
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Weather then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Weather Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Weather
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Weather Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Weather
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Weather
