"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "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, ignorance, g Weather I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Weather Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Weather
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Weather We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Weather
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Weather Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Weather
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Weather "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Weather
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Weather I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Weather
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Weather Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Weather
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Weather "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Weather
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Weather In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Weather
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Weather Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Weather
