The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Regional and Local Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Regional and Local
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Regional and Local The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Regional and Local
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Regional and Local Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Regional and Local
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Regional and Local >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Regional and Local
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Regional and Local Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Regional and Local
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Regional and Local What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Regional and Local
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Regional and Local "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Regional and Local
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Regional and Local "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Regional and Local
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Regional and Local A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Regional and Local
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins My other wife is beautiful. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Regional and Local cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Regional and Local
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Regional and Local Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Regional and Local
