"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder 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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Weather There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics 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 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Weather
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Weather When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Weather
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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Weather When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Weather
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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' If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Weather Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson 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) Weather
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Weather Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Weather
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Weather
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Weather Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weather
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Weather With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Weather
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
de "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Weather Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Weather
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Weather If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Weather
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Weather There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Weather
