All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Weather Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Weather
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Weather When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Weather
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Weather You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Weather
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Weather "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Weather If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Weather
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "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 Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Weather All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Weather
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Weather Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Weather
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Weather If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Weather
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Weather "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Weather
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Weather In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Weather
