"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Weather Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. 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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Weather blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Weather
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Weather I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Weather Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "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) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Weather Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Weather "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Weather
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Weather
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Weather 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) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Weather A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Weather
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Weather Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Weather
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Weather Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Weather
