"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Weather Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Weather
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Weather It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Weather
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Weather "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) What's new? Most of my wife. Weather
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Weather Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Weather The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Weather
"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) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Weather Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Weather
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Weather "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Weather
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Weather Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Weather
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Weather "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Weather No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Weather
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "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) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Weather Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Weather
