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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Weather Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Weather
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Weather It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Weather
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Weather I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Weather
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Weather For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Weather
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Weather "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Weather
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Weather Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Weather
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Weather When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Weather
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Weather
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Weather The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Weather
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Weather
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Weather It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Weather
