"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Weather When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Weather
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Weather Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Weather
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Weather "'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, Through the Looking Glass) 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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Weather
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Weather "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Weather
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) 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
cr Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Weather One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Weather
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Weather Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Weather
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Weather It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Weather
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Weather You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Weather
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "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) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Weather I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Weather
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Weather When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Weather
