"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Weather Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Weather
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Weather Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Weather
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Weather The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Weather
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Weather The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Weather
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Weather We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Weather
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Weather The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Weather
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Weather The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Weather
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Weather "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Weather
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Weather
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Weather Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Weather
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Weather "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) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Weather
