Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Weather "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Weather
"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) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Weather The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 Weather
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Weather Marriage is a rest period between romances. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Weather
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Weather When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weather
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "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) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Weather "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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Weather
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Weather "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Weather
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "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) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Weather "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Weather
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) 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 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 Weather Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Weather
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Weather We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Weather
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Weather
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Weather A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
