Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Weather While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Weather
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Weather Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Weather "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Weather
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Weather The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Weather
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Weather Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Weather
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Weather Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Weather
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Weather "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Weather
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Weather He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Weather
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Weather Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Weather
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "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) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Weather A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Weather
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Weather This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Weather
