Some favorite quotes

"Hope for the best, expect the worst"

"Time is the most valuable thing one can spend."
Theophrastus (ca. 300 B.C.)

"Absence diminishes weak passions and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out candles and fans fire."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused" Elvis Costello

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

I think to  a large degree musicians have become the poets of our time

"how will you hear when you've heard it all before
how much can you take when you've taken all you can
how far can you go when you've been there before
how can you heal someone who doesn't want to heal"

Questions by INXS (Welcome to wherever you are)

I saw this on a girl's personal ad, a while back and thought it was worth copying.
It's a 'translation' of the words used by women for their personal ads.

 
*Free spirit.........flake
*Athletic................ Flat-chested
*Weight proportional to height..................the guy better be, because I'm not
*Voluptuous..............  Fat
*Reubenesque............. Very Fat
*Average looking......... Ugly
*Beautiful............... average looking but wants to feel good about herself
*Educated................ College dropout
*Feminist................ Fat; ball buster
*Friendship first........ Trying to live down reputation as slut 
*New-Age................. All body hair, all the time
*Old-fashioned........... Lights out, missionary position only
*Wants Soulmate.......... One step away from stalking
*Passionate..............Loud
*Artisitic or Poet.................... Depressive Schzophrenic
*Professional............ Real Witch
*Blonde................. Shops the Clairol section
*Romantic................ Looks better  by candle light
*Widow................... Nagged first husband to death
*40-ish.......................means 48years old *
*Young at heart.........means she's not something you want to look at on the outside