I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Weather With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Weather
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Weather Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Weather
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Weather "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Weather
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Weather "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Weather
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Weather Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Weather
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Weather Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Weather
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Weather "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Weather
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Weather I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Weather
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Weather The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Weather The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Weather
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Weather "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Weather
