"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Weather Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Weather
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Weather We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Weather
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Weather Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Weather
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Weather Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Weather
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Weather A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Weather
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Weather "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Weather
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Weather Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Weather
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Weather This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Weather
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Weather In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Weather
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Weather CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Weather
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Weather And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "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
