"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Weather The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Weather
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Weather If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Weather
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Weather Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman 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 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Weather
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Weather People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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 Weather
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Weather "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Weather
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Weather Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Weather There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Weather
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Weather I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Weather
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Weather In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Weather
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Weather You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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.
-- Winston Churchill The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Weather Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Weather
