A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weedon The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Weedon
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Weedon Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Weedon
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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weedon "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Weedon
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Weedon "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Weedon
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Weedon "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Weedon
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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Weedon MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Weedon
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Weedon "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Weedon
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Weedon If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Weedon
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Weedon Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Weedon
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Weedon 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 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Weedon
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Weedon "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Weedon
