Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Weather 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 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Weather
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Weather
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Weather Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Weather
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Weather Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
>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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Weather A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Weather
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Weather The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Weather
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Weather Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Weather
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "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) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Weather The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Weather
"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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Weather "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Weather
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "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) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Weather These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Weather
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Weather It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Weather
