Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weather Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Weather The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Weather
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Weather "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Weather
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Weather We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Weather
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Weather Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Weather
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Weather Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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 used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Weather The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Weather
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Weather "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Weather
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Weather "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Weather "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Weather
