Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Weather We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Weather
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Weather "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Weather
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Weather We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Weather
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Weather A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Weather
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Weather A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Weather
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Weather "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "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) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Weather
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Weather I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Weather
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Weather If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel 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) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Weather If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Weather
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Weather
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Weather To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Weather
