"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Weather "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Weather
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Weather "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Weather The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Weather
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Weather In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Weather
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Weather Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weather
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Weather There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Weather
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Weather "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weather
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Weather The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Weather
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- 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) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Weather The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Weather
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Weather The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Weather
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Weather The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Weather
