"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) 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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Weather My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Weather
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Weather "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) 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 man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Weather
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Weather To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Weather
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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Weather They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Weather
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Weather "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde My other wife is beautiful. Weather
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Weather There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Weather
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Weather "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "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) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Weather "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Weather
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Weather "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Weather A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Weather
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Weather "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Weather
