"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Weather If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Weather
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Weather "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Weather "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Weather
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Weather When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Weather
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Weather If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Weather
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Weather "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weather
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Weather "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 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Weather Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Weather
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Weather "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Weather
"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) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Weather May you never leave your marriage alive. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Weather
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Weather Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Weather
