The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Weather Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Weather
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Weather The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Weather
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Weather "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Weather
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Weather It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Weather
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Weather "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 Weather
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Weather "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Weather
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Weather "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Weather
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Weather 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Weather
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Weather The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Weather
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Weather Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Weather
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings 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 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Weather The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Weather
