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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Weather The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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 Weather Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Weather
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Weather The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Weather "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Weather
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "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, Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Weather "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Weather
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Weather The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Weather
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Weather Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Weather Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Weather
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Weather "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Weather
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Weather Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Weather
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Weather A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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. Weather
