What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Weather Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Weather
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Weather He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Weather
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Weather With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Weather
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Weather Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weather
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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Weather If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Weather
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Weather
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Weather
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Weather We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Weather
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Weather "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Weather
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Weather You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Weather
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "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) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Weather If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Weather
