It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "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) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Weather Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Weather
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Weather To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Weather
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Weather He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Weather
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Weather It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Weather
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Weather The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Weather
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Weather "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Weather
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Weather It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Weather
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Weather If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Weather
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Weather If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Weather
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Weather Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Weather
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weather "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
