| Week |
Quote |
Author |
| 1/6/02 |
"We are all dying, some of us just faster than others." |
Cory Bogner |
| 1/13/02 |
"The only goal in chess is to prove your superiority over the other guy... And the most important superiority, the most total one, is the superiority of the mind. I mean, your opponent must be destroyed. Fully destroyed." |
Garry Kasparov |
| 1/20/02 |
"There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer." |
Marcel Proust |
| 1/27/02 |
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." |
Henny Youngman |
| 2/3/02 |
"A mind full of tremendous and subtle intuitions, and every day he found less and less to say about them, and resigned himself to being inarticulate." |
Thomas Merton |
| 2/10/02 |
"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature." |
William Rotsler |
| 2/17/02 |
"Life had stunned my eyes and left them so confused they wanted to keep looking." |
Dante Alighieri |
| 2/24/02 |
"Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy." |
Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
| 3/3/02 |
"Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy." |
Julie Burchill |
| 3/10/02 |
"I'd like to be a reed. You get blown backwards and forward by the ebbs and flows of what is happening in the world. But you don't break. I have never broken, and I will never break." |
Pete Townshend |
| 3/17/02 |
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." |
Sacha Guitry |
| 3/24/02 |
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." |
Yogi Berra |
| 3/31/02 |
"I just want people to know that I'm not drunk all the time." |
Dudley Moore |
| 4/7/02 |
"A dying man needs to die as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." |
Stewart Alsop |
| 4/14/02 |
"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war." |
Winston Churchill |
| 4/21/02 |
"The whole nation, I promise you, will experience and orgasm... I will bring Russia up off her knees." |
Vladimir Zhirinovsky |
| 4/28/02 |
"It is often argued that the people who will be affected by a major decision should be involved in it. Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal in southern Africa, once resolved a dispute between two brothers about a land inheritance they were to share. Kruger's decision: let one brother divide the land, and let the other brother have first choice." |
Louis E. Boone |
| 5/5/02 |
"Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired." |
Jules Renard |
| 5/12/02 |
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." |
Anonymous |
| 5/19/02 |
"Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl's clothes off." |
Raymond Chandler |
| 5/26/02 |
"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." |
Richard M. Nixon |
| 6/2/02 |
"An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true." |
Doug Larson |
| 6/9/02 |
"Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense." |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
| 6/16/02 |
"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." |
Woody Allen |
| 6/23/02 |
"Rap? It's short for crap." |
Greg Allman |
| 6/30/02 |
"In politics there is no honor." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
| 7/7/02 |
"Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest." |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 7/14/02 |
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." |
Joseph Stalin |
| 7/21/02 |
"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain." |
Bob Marley |
| 7/28/02 |
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." |
Seneca |
| 8/4/02 |
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." |
Jimi Hendrix |
| 8/11/02 |
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." |
Thomas Mann |
| 8/18/02 |
"The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. " |
William Butler Yeats |
| 8/25/02 |
"I'm confused. Any chick making out with Shane in Canada is the same person." |
Greg Morgan |
| 9/1/02 |
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." |
Carl Jung |
| 9/8/02 |
"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed." |
James Thurber |
| 9/15/02 |
"When we long for life without... difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." |
Peter Marshall |
| 9/22/02 |
"Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel." |
Boise Penrose |
| 9/29/02 |
"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better." |
H.L. Mencken |
| 10/6/02 |
"It's terrifying to care, of course, and the young man whom I once heard say to the girl whose hand he was holding, "Shit, I think I love you," in the ominous tones of someone declaring that he was coming down with the plague, probably put the fear that accompanies loving as graphically as it can be put." |
Merle Shain |
| 10/13/02 |
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| 10/20/02 |
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." |
Andre Maurois |
| 10/27/02 |
"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life." |
Charles Frohman |
| 11/3/02 |
"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too." |
Thomas Jefferson |
| 11/10/02 |
"The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery" |
Ralph Hodgson |
| 11/17/02 |
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends." |
Cicero |
| 11/24/02 |
"The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money." |
Marcel Achard |
| 12/1/02 |
"Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody." |
Garrison Keillor |
| 12/8/02 |
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else." |
Will Rogers |
| 12/15/02 |
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French." |
Charles De Gaulle |
| 12/22/02 |
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." |
Marilyn vos Savant |
| 12/29/02 |
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect." |
Leonardo da Vinci |
