"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Weather You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 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. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Weather
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Weather This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Weather
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Weather I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Weather
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Weather "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Weather
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Weather In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Weather
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Weather Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Weather
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Weather "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Weather
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Weather "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
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"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Weather "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Weather Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Weather
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 "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Weather The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Weather
