"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Weather Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Weather Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Weather I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Weather
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Weather In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard 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 Weather
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Weather "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Weather The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Weather Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Weather
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Weather "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Weather
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Weather Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Weather
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Weather "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Weather
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Weather Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Weather
