The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Weather Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Weather
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Weather "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Weather
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Weather "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Weather
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Weather Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Weather
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Weather No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Weather
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Weather "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Weather
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Weather Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Weather
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Weather This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Weather
"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) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance 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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Weather The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Weather
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Weather "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Weather
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Weather "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Weather
