"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Weather In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Weather
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Weather Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Weather
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Weather Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Weather
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Weather My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Weather
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Weather The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Weather
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Weather Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Weather
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Weather Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Weather
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Weather The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Weather
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Weather The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Weather
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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Weather "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Weather
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Weather
