Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Weather LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Weather
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Weather "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Weather
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Weather "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Weather
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Weather The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Weather
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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Weather
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Weather Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Weather
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Weather I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Weather
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Weather Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Weather
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Weather If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Weather
