I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Weather Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Weather
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Weather Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Weather
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Weather "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Weather
"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 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Weather "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Weather
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Weather Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Weather Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Weather
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Weather The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Weather
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Weather Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Weather
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Weather Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Weather
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Weather "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Weather
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Weather I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Weather
