May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Weather Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Weather One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 Weather
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Weather And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Weather
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Weather "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Weather
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Weather The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Weather
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Weather You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Weather
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Weather I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Weather
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Weather I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Weather
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Weather Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Weather
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Weather They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Weather
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Weather I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Weather
