The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Equestrian "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Equestrian
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Equestrian Man and wife make one fool. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Equestrian
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Equestrian To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Equestrian
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Equestrian The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Equestrian
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Equestrian Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Equestrian
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Equestrian The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Equestrian
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Equestrian It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Equestrian
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Equestrian Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Equestrian
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Equestrian There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Equestrian
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Equestrian The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Equestrian
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Equestrian "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Equestrian
