And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Weather Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Weather
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Weather "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Weather
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Weather Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Weather Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Weather
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Weather
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Weather A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Weather
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Weather If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Weather
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Weather Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Weather
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Weather You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Weather
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Weather
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Weather Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather
