7.24.2004

Dec 20, 2003

Half our life is pent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner

Dec 24, 2003

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churhill

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger

Dec 30, 2003

The greater the wealth, the thicker the dirt.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
- Adlai Stevenson

Dec 31, 2003

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
- Agnes DeMille

Jan 1, 2004

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The tougthful Soul to Solitude retires.
- Omar Khayyam

Jan 4, 2004

He that knows little often repeats it.
- Thomas Fuller
(later that evening I was actually at a party where an individual fit this very description)

Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
- George Bernard Shaw

- added 03/15/04

Jan 8, 2004

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
- W. Somerset Maugham

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson

They have rights who dare maintain them.
- James Russell Lowell

Jan 14, 2004

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw

Jan 18, 2004

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
- Benjamin Franklin

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- George Eliot

Jan 21, 2004

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One does not sell the land people walk on.
- Crazy Horse

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!
- Edwin Way Teale

Jan 31, 2004

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
- Duke Ellington

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
- Charlie Chaplin

It is with a word as with an arrow - once let loose it does not return.
- Unknown

-+ Feb 04 2004 +-

Advice is worth what it costs - that is, nothing.
- Douglas MacArthur

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
- Alexandre Dumas

The trouble with marrying your mistress is that you create a job vacancy.
- Sir James Goldsmith

Feb 09 2004

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
- Elbert Hubbard

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
- Charles F. Kettering

Feb 04 2004

Paranoia means having all the facts.
- William S. Burroughs

Feb 16 2004

We are judged by what we finish, not what we start.
- Anonymous

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand
- Bible [Mark 3:25]

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run halfway to meet it.
- Douglas William Jerrold

Feb 21s, 2004

n a hierarchy, eery empoe tends torse to hs evl o incopetence.
- Laurence j PETer

The bed shepoor man's opera.Italian proverb

Be lly, be hones. Be kind.Ralph Waldo Emerso (*my qute0
Feb 2th
We hang the petty thieves andappont th gre ones to public office.
- Aesop

Whenmoney tas, therearefe interuptins.
- Herbert V. prochnow

There's a pich of madman nevery great mn.
- Uwn

Feb 29t

Thee is o such ting as jusice -in or ut of curt.
- Clarence Darrow

A ow voter urnout is aindication o fewer peope goig to h polls.
- DAn Quaye


march 02, 20

Be awful nce to 'em goin u, because youre gona meet' emall comn' dow.
- jimmy Durate

Marriage s ree partslov and seven partsforgiveess ofsins
- langdn mitchell
To safeguard one's heah ate cost of too strict a det isatiresomllness indeed.
- FRancos De a Rochefoucaluld

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March 08, 2004

What the critics said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to he bank.
- liberace
Justdo hat you d best.
Red Ruebrbach

Good peare god because tey've come twisdm throug failure.
- Wioiam Sroyan

march 0th

Happiness is good health ad bad memory.
- Ingrid bergman

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he will do, nothing else.
- Andrew Malraux

[ updated july 24th ]

May 03, 2004

Never cut what you can untie.
- Joseph Joubert

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.
- Aristotle

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.
- Thomas Jefferson

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
- E.B. White

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
- Jackqueline Kennedy Onassis

May 08, 2004

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

From a worldy point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
- Samuel Butler

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Douglas MacArthur

* May 14, 2004
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
- Theophile Gautier

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahil Gibran

There is nothing so habbit-forming as money.
- Don Marquis

Hypocrisy is the parent's first duty.
- George Bernard Shaw

May 19, 2004

It is better to be approximately right then precisely wrong.
- Warren Buffett

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with freedom.
- Bob Dylan


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