Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 Weather We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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.
-- Sacha Guitry "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Weather Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Weather
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Weather Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Weather
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Weather Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Weather
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Weather The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Weather The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Weather
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Weather I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Weather
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Weather The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Weather
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Weather I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Weather
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Weather Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Weather
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Weather "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather
