Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Weather However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Weather
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Weather Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Weather
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Weather "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 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
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Weather "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Weather
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Weather Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Weather
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Weather To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Weather
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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Weather "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Weather
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Weather He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather 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 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Weather
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Weather
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Weather Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Weather
