"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Weather I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Weather
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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
machi "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Weather Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Weather
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Weather A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Weather
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Weather "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Weather
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Weather Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Weather
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Weather If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Weather
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Weather I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Weather
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Weather "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Weather
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Weather
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Weather "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) Weather
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Weather Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Weather
