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-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Weather This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Weather
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Weather There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Weather
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "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 Weather Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Weather
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Weather There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Weather
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Weather He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Weather
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Weather All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Weather
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Weather In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Weather
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Weather I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Weather
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Weather If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Weather
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Weather
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Weather Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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