The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Weather "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Weather
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Weather The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Weather
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Weather Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Weather
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Weather The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Weather
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Weather We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Weather
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "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 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Weather
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Weather "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Weather
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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, We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Weather Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Weather
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Weather
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Weather "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Weather
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "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) Weather
