Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Cricket May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Cricket
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cricket As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Cricket
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "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) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Cricket A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Cricket
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Cricket Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Cricket
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Cricket "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) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "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' Cricket
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Cricket "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cricket
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Cricket "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Cricket
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Cricket Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Cricket
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Cricket Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Cricket
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Cricket Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cricket
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket
