The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Weather Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Weather
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Weather
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Weather Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Weather
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. 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) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Weather "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Weather
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Weather "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Weather
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Weather We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Weather "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "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) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Weather We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Weather
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Weather There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Weather
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Weather When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Weather
